Emy Kat is a researcher, visual artist and photographer working in

contemporary art Contemporary art is the art of today, produced in the second half of the 20th century or in the 21st century. Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world. Their art is a dynamic com ...

and

fine art photography Fine-art photography is photography created in line with the vision of the photographer as artist, using photography as a medium for creative expression. The goal of fine-art photography is to express an idea, a message, or an emotion. This stand ...

Career and life

Emy Kat was born in 1959 and is of Middle Eastern descent. Philby No 1 - 2015 - Lambda Print - 90x67 cm - Ed of 6

As a contemporary photographer, he has built a large body of work over several decades. He developed a love for the medium at an early age, when his father gave him his first camera at the age of 12, sparking a lifelong passion for photography. After refining his craft in the United States, he received a graduate degree in photography from the

Brooks Institute The Brooks Institute was a private for-profit art school in Ventura, California. It was formerly the Brooks Institute of Photography and was originally based in Montecito and Santa Barbara.Santa Barbara, California Santa Barbara ( es, Santa Bárbara, meaning "Saint Barbara") is a coastal city in Santa Barbara County, California, of which it is also the county seat. Situated on a south-facing section of coastline, the longest such section on the West Coas ...

, (USA) in 1997. During his studies, he achieved exceptional academic success and received numerous awards, including recognition for Advertising and Creative Excellence. Kat began his career in

fashion photography Fashion photography is a genre of photography which is devoted to displaying clothing and other fashion items, sometimes haute couture. It typically consists of a fashion photographer taking a picture of a dressed model in a photographic studio o ...

portraits A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expressions are predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this re ...

, and commercial advertising and shifted in 2009 to

Contemporary Art Contemporary art is the art of today, produced in the second half of the 20th century or in the 21st century. Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world. Their art is a dynamic com ...

and

Fine-art photography Fine-art photography is photography created in line with the vision of the photographer as artist, using photography as a medium for creative expression. The goal of fine-art photography is to express an idea, a message, or an emotion. This stand ...

. A researcher and photographer, Kat is best known for his explorations of culture and heritage as well as landscape and spiritual transformations. In 2013, he introduced a new technique in

contemporary Art Contemporary art is the art of today, produced in the second half of the 20th century or in the 21st century. Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world. Their art is a dynamic com ...

classified as a post-medium condition, a type of "digital collage". He calls it "Mental Spaces", the artwork deals with capturing a given space and connects several images taken from various angles to create one image, offering the viewer a chance to experience a given space from multiple angles in one gaze. "This technique allows me to cover several dimensions of a space and to effectively sum up all the facts into a single visual. A sample of "Mental Spaces" by Emy Kat titled "Indoors" 2013 His work is included in a number of prominent private and public collections. His iconographic studies on the subject "Femme" describing her superiorities (Nude studies on Platinum) is a permanent collection at BNF

Bibliothèque nationale de France The Bibliothèque nationale de France (, 'National Library of France'; BnF) is the national library of France, located in Paris on two main sites known respectively as ''Richelieu'' and ''François-Mitterrand''. It is the national repository ...

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The collection is under Reference number Ep-4001-Boîte pet. fol.(Collection Publiques). His work from the project "The Everlasting Now" has been acquired by the British Museum

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Kat participated in a number of local and international shows including Jeddah Arts 21,39 inaugural exhibition Moallaqat

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Art Dubai

and Paris Photo

Kat has lived and worked in Los Angeles, New York, London, Dubai and is currently based in Paris where his studio is located.

Film vs digital

Although Kat chose to work mostly with photographic film, he majored in

digital imaging Digital imaging or digital image acquisition is the creation of a digital representation of the visual characteristics of an object, such as a physical scene or the interior structure of an object. The term is often assumed to imply or include ...

. The limits of

digital photography Digital photography uses cameras containing arrays of electronic photodetectors interfaced to an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) to produce images focused by a lens, as opposed to an exposure on photographic film. The digitized image is sto ...

are to blame for this. He began utilizing a top-of-the-line LEAF

digital camera back A digital camera back is a device that attaches to the back of a camera in place of the traditional negative film holder and contains an electronic image sensor. This lets cameras that were designed to use film take digital photographs. These ...

system in 2008. However, for the most of his fine art, he still uses

photographic film Photographic film is a strip or sheet of transparent film base coated on one side with a gelatin photographic emulsion, emulsion containing microscopically small light-sensitive silver halide crystals. The sizes and other characteristics of th ...

with a

large format Large format refers to any imaging format of or larger. Large format is larger than "medium format", the or size of Hasselblad, Mamiya, Rollei, Kowa, and Pentax cameras (using 120- and 220-roll film), and much larger than the frame o ...

view camera A view camera is a large-format camera in which the lens forms an inverted image on a ground-glass screen directly at the film plane. The image is viewed and then the glass screen is replaced with the film, and thus the film is exposed to exact ...

and

medium format Medium format has traditionally referred to a film format in photography and the related cameras and equipment that use film. Nowadays, the term applies to film and digital cameras that record images on media larger than the used in 35&nbs ...

camera.

Notable artwork

*''Nude studies of women on platinum (Etudes Nus femme)'' Archived and collected by the BNF

(2000). Reference number Ep-4001-Boîte pet. fol.(Collection Publiques) *''La Pass Murraille – series of 5 images – edition 3'' – (1999) *''Souls on the streets (Ames Dans les Rues)'' – (2009) *''The Everlasting Now'' – (2012–2013) solo exhibition, Athr Gallery

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013 013 is a music venue in Tilburg, the Netherlands. The venue opened in 1998 and replaced the ''Noorderligt'', the ''Bat Cave'' and the ''MuziekKantenWinkel''. 013 is the largest popular music venue in the southern Netherlands. There are two concer ...

Art Dubai

Solo Exhibition, Bin Mattar House

Paris Photo

1er Biennale des photographes du mond Arabe – Institute du Mond Arabe – Paris

015 Fifteen or 15 may refer to: *15 (number), the natural number following 14 and preceding 16 *one of the years 15 BC, AD 15, 1915, 2015 Music *Fifteen (band), a punk rock band Albums * ''15'' (Buckcherry album), 2005 * ''15'' (Ani Lorak album ...

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Book contributions

Kat's photographs have been included in several books published by

Graphis Inc. ''Graphis, Inc.'' is an international publisher of books and awards for the visual communications industry. Based in New York City, Graphis presents and promotes the best submitted work in Graphic Design, Advertising, Photography and Art/Illust ...

*(2007) "Photography Annual" *(2006) "Photography Annual" *(2000) "Nude 3" *(1998) "Photography Annual" *(1997) ''Annual Design''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kat, Emy Living people Contemporary artists Portrait photographers 1959 births Brooks Institute alumni