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“Looking at Claire Rosen’s photographs
can feel like walking into someone else’s dreams.”
2017
How Do You Dream Up A Cockatoo Feast? An Artist Explains In 'Imaginarium' on NPR Weekend Edition with Lulu Garcia-Navarr
Looking at Claire Rosen's photographs can feel like walking into someone else's dreams. One of her images shows a young girl about to be dragged into the sky by a pack of flying toy horses. Another series shows horses, hedgehogs, cockatoos and camels posed before different sumptuous feasts, as if having their own last suppers. … [click to continue reading]
“The photographs impel viewers to empathize with the animals by recalling the way many of us imagined them when we were children.”
2018
Do Turtles Have Good Table Manners? A Photographer Finds Out… National Geographic Picture Stories by Sarah Stacker
Claire Rosen's dinner party creations reignite the magic of childhood. If flamingos dined together at a table in Miami, Florida, what would it look like? How about cheetahs in South Africa or sloths in the Peruvian Amazon? These are the gatherings that fine art photographer Claire Rosen brings to life…
2018
From bees to bison, dinner tables with unusual guests by Chloe Coleman for the Washington Post Insight
Claire Rosen’s photography series, Fantastical Feasts, began with what was a true last supper. She was commissioned by lighting designer Alex Randall, which sprouted the idea for The Pig Feast. “Arrangements were made with a small local pig farmer,” Rosen told In Sight. “He agreed to hold off on sending the pigs to market so that we could do the photo shoot. The idea sprang forth from there … since it might literally be their last meal, the reference seemed appropriate in a macabre way.”
2018
PDN Photo Annual
Outstanding Photography and Multimedia:
Personal Work Category for Fantastical Feasts
“Rosen took us into a storybook world
that we won’t soon forget.”
2018
A Look Inside Claire Rosen’s Spellbinding “IMAGINARIUM”
by Miss Rosen for Feature Shoot.
“Imagination is more important than knowledge,” no less than Albert Einstein observed. “For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, and giving birth to evolution.”
Imagination holds the key to possibility, the very impetus that has made humankind a miraculous species. Within the infinite expanses of the mind exists anything we can dream up at any time. It is here, in this netherworld that we take flight, creating something out of nothing, and potentially bringing it to life.
2018
Claire Rosen’s Lush Worlds, PDN Photo of the Day
Claire Rosen’s recent book Imaginarium: The Process Behind the Pictures, published by Rocky Nook, mixes an account of her creative development and process with advice for other artists about how to realize their own vision. In celebration of the book, United Photo Industries in Brooklyn is presenting an exhibition of Rosen’s work from eight different series spanning the past decade, on view until January 27.
“It’s a fairy-tale place at once dreamily whimsical and darkly alluring, oddly familiar and freshly exciting. You glimpse it in all of her richly luminous images”
2015
“Curated Dreamscapes” Monica Kass Rogers for Communication Arts Magazine, September/October 2015, pg 62-69
Four tiny mice, tails thinner than licorice laces, nibble seeds in the corner of the acrylic pet tote Claire Rosen holds in her slender hands. “I named them after my sisters,” Rosen confides, scooping the smallest, Lillie, from the box to nestle on the front of the petticoat-bolstered dress she’s wearing to match the Marie-Antoinette-meets-The-Borrowers-meets-The-Tailor-of-Gloucester photo shoot we are about to start. I say “we” because 31-year-old Rosen’s enthusiasm about her photo projects is so infectious, it’s nearly impossible to stand at the edge without jumping in.
January 10, 2020 Maureen Nandini Mitra, A Feast for the Beasts, Earth Island Journal
August 16, 2018 Simona Marani, Lo Spirito Dell'Estate…, Gioia
August 8, 2018 Elin Spring, Flight of Fancy, What Will You Remember (blog)
August 1, 2018 Flight of Fancy, Wall Street International Art
July 1, 2018 Coming Attractions: July 1 through 17 — What Will Light Your Fire, The Arts Fuse
July 24, 2018 Jacob Cutler, Flights of Fancy at Panopticon Gallery, Artscope Online
June 29, 2018 Flight of Fancy, Panopticon Gallery Press Release
April 30, 2018 Miss Rosen, A look inside Claire Rosen's Spellbinding “IMAGINARIUM”, Feature Shoot
April 24, 2018 Sarah Stacke, Do Turtles Have Good Table Manners?, National Geographic
February 15, 2018 Lynne Eodice, FUJIFILM GFX 50S: Medium Format Workhorse, Photographer's Forum
January 26, 2018 Chloe Coleman, "From bees to bison…" Washington Post In Sight
December 12, 2017 Claire Rosen’s Lush Worlds PDN Photo of the Day
December 11, 2017 Art Out: Claire Rosen - "Imaginarium" Musee Magazine
Fall 2017 Jacqui Palumbo "Making a Guide for the Modern Photographer" PDNedu, 20-21
July 15, 2017 Cynthia Haynes "Conceptually Speaking" Craft & Vision (blog)
July 2017 Matthew Ismael Ruiz "Digital Medium Format" PDN Studio Equipment Guide 2017. 19
July 10, 2017 "Imaginarium by Claire Rosen" Resolve (blog)
July 7, 2017 Cynthia Haynes "Thinking Less Literally" Craft & Vision (blog)
May 29, 2017 "Claire Rosen; A Reflection of Exoticism and Artifice" Arte Satura (blog)
April 19, 2017 Ellyn Kail, "This New Book For Photographer" Feature Shoot (blog)
April 13, 2017 "Ethics and Aesthetics of accumulation" Arte Satura (blog)
March 26, 2017 Lulu Garcia-Navarro, “How Do You Dream Up A Cockatoo Feast?” NPR Weekend Editio
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Elly Thomas, “Claire Rosen: Arthropodia” World Photography Organization (blog)
Emma Horn, "Follow the Mouse" Crinkling News Australia
Caryn Krueger, "Studio Visit" CSM Art (blog)
Jessica Kneipp, "Fantastical Birds of Paradise" Vision
Radio Interview, Dubai Eye 1038, Dubai UAE
Matthew Oxley, “Fantastical Feasts” World Photography Organization (blog)
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Monica Kass Rogers “Curated Dreamscapes” Communication Arts Magazine, 62-69
Kathryn Bromwich, “Birds of Paradise” The Observer in The Guardian
Ellyn Kail, "Our Favorite Photos from the Fence" Feature Shoot (blog)
Sharyn Flanagan, "Formal Bird Portraits" Almanac Weekly
Kimberly Bryant, "Exotic Birds of a Feather" Ignite Channel (blog)
Anabella Jean-Laurent, "Review: Claire Rosen at Hagedorn" BURNAWAY (blog)
Daniel Milnor, "Dispatches: Claire Rosen" Shifter (blog)
Kaley Sweeney, “Claire Rosen: Nostalgia” World Photography Organization (blog
Holly Hollingsworth Phillips. "Artist Spotlight Series" The English Room (blog)
Kayla Chobotiuk, “Birds of a Feather” Juxtapoz Magazine (blog)
Sarah Barnes, “Dark Versions Of Classic Fairy Tales” Beautiful/Decay (blog)
John Brownlee, “The Personalities Of Exotic Birds” Fast Company Design (blog)
David Rosenberg, "Does thie Wallpaper go with my Feathers" Slate (blog)
Anna, “Whimsical Birds” Pen & Feather (blog)
Hannah Ogden, “Ruffle the Surface” Designed For Living (blog)
Naomi Bulger, "Camouflage" Naomi Loves (blog)
Adrian Cano Franco, "Agrupando los recuerdos por colores" ALTFoto (blog)
Christine Tolpinrud, “Fargesterkt på Saga” Foto.no (blog)
Michelle Rae Uy, “Nostalgia: Whimsical Still Life Series” The Phoblographer (blog)
Dana Tomic Hughes, "Claire Rosen's Fairytale Photography" Yellowtrace (blog)
Stewart Barlow, "Nostalgia – a study in color" Mappa Mundi Magazine (blog)
Celine, “Birds of a Feather” Grain de Photographe (blog)
Jill Cotton, “Birds of a Feather” World Photography Organization (blog)
Kaitlyn Schaeffer, "Dark Nostalgia/Childhood Toys" Complex Art+Design (blog)
Elizabeth Maskasky, "Color Studies Evoke Nostalgia" Hi Fructose Magazine (blog)
E. Christina Spitz, "A Methodical Approach to Whimsy" SCAD (blog)
Julia Sabot, "Claire Rosen's Striking Portraits of Birds" Feature Shoot (blog)
Nicole Rae, "Regarding Fairy Tales: Claire Rosen" Faded + Blurred (blog)
Elyse Weingarten, “Interview with Claire Rosen” The Rumpus (blog)
Diane Herbst, “Creative Vision of Claire Rosen” Montclair Magazine
Julie Grahame, "Portfolio of One" PDN's Emerging Photographer Magazine
Heather Cammarata-Seale, “Paradoxical World of Claire Rosen” Exhibition Catalogue
Video “Trade Secrets” Refinery 29 TV (blog)
Erol, “Claire Rosen / Interview” Neo Collective (blog)
Rebecca Bedrossian “Fresh” Communication Arts Magazine, 222 & 223
Tracey Scott “Arabian Dream” Jumeirah Magazine, 44 - 51
“So, you want to be a fashion photographer?” SUPERFAB Middle East (blog)
Interview, Dubia Eye Radio, Dubai UAE
Jennifer Raiser “Bespoke: The Adventures of Randall & Rosen” SFWire (blog)
“Dark and [Also] A Bit Ridiculous” Communication Arts: Insights (blog)
Amberlie Bankoff “Claire Rosen and Cora Pearl Underpinnings” PhotoCine News (blog)
Profile “Friday Art Stars” Photopol.us (blog)
Joan Finn “In the Dark” Montclair Times Arts Section, D3
Joan Finn “Me, Myself & I” Montclair Times Arts Section, February 28, 2008. D3