For Immediate
Release:
Friday,
August 20, 2010
Photographer
Cay
Fatima
exhibits “JAM” Jazz And Music –
2010
WBGO Jazz Radio Station Gallery – August 3
–
September
30, 2010
Opening Reception
Thursday,
August 19, 2010
6
– 8 PM
54
Park Place
Newark
,
New
Jersey
Tel:
(973)
624-8880
www.wbgo.org
Newark
,
New Jersey
WBGO
Jazz 88 radio station presented a touring photographic exhibit JAM Jazz And
Music, August 3 -
September 30, 2010
at the station's art gallery, located
54 Park Place
Newark
,
New Jersey
.
The opening reception Thursday, August 19 was an exciting mix of musical
and visual personalities that featured the live music of pianist
Tomoko
Ohno
.
JAM
the work of photographer
Cay
Fatima
and about nine
guest photographers that include Bernard
James, Lu Figgs, Sherry Rayn Barnette, Ronnie Wright, Kwame Brathwaithe, Salimah
Ali, Everett James and Harold Rhynie who also have a passion for performing
and musical arts photography . Jazz
And Music is an extrapolation of a larger exhibit “People, Places,
Politics”, but JAM only features musical visual themes. The WBGO exhibit will
feature musical talent such as Buddy Guy,
Freddie
Hubbard
, Stevie Wonder,
Miles
Davis
,
Nina
Simone
,
Tupac
Shakur
, Dizzy
Gillespie,
Aretha
Franklin
and the Staple
Singers.
"It was hard to select about 50 photos from the greater
collection," says
Fatima
. "I have
a hard time choosing, so some exhibitions may not show the same pieces all the
time. The hardest to choose is the musician and I am adding to the collection
all the time. As people, places politics and music change, I hope to continue in
this mode to document with photography the transformations, while continuing to
explore other forms of audio-visual expression."
The 2010 installation was on display at WGBO for two months
and then
Harlem
was the next stop on the tour
schedule. This exhibit features new
portraits of Kirk Whalum and
Gerald
Albright
as well as some
never exhibited before in this collection.
“The
New Jersey
community has
been very positively responsive to my talents as a photographer and musician.”
“Exhibiting on a local level gives me as an artist the ability to be
in-touch with the everyday person, who has just as much pizzazz as some of the
celebrities I have photographed,” says
Fatima
.
First, a student of psychology and political
science at
Boston
University
, Cay dropped out
with a restless determination to be a visual and performing artist.
Ms.
Fatima
, shortly
thereafter, transferred and graduated from SUNY-College at Old Westbury as the
first multi-media major, studying music, theater, dance, visual and graphic
arts. After graduating from Old
Westbury,
Ms.
Fatima
continued her
studies at the Institute For New Cinema Artists, a film, television, recording
arts and sciences school run by actor
Ossie
Davis
. Over the course
of her career, Cay has also studied privately with still life photographer Herb
Robinson, studio photographer
Eugene
Adams
and the late Lu
Figgs, as well as the late Amsterdam News photo editor, Tex Harris and
wildlife/travel/nature photographer
Ted
Whiting
.
In between her work as a jazz musician, Cay stays busy as a
photo-journalist/multimedia specialist with Entertainment
Media News Services. Look for a
new spoken word recording project, as well as lectures, demonstrations and
workshops.
For
directions and gallery hours call
(973) 624-8880
; for more information about
Cay Fatima
please visit: www.cayfatima.com
or contact KMA
(516) 442-3059
