Not An Exit

• Photographer
  Austin Irving
• Technical Info
  Kodak Portra 160 iso 4x5 film shot with a Toyo Field camera
• Website
  http://austinirving.com

NOT AN EXIT is a collection of large format photographs that proposes a closer examination of the nondescript interiors that we routinely pass through; doorways and hallways, spaces intended for movement but here, somehow appear impenetrable. Irving transforms these dead ends into studies on the architecture—spatial and psychological—of confinement, straddling the boundary of absurdist and unsettling. Both banal and bizarre, the Kafkaesque quirks and the illusionistic geometry of these locations draw the eye deep into the picture, only to be thwarted in its progress through the space.

• Biography
  Born and raised in New York City, Austin Irving is a visual artist who works with large format analog photography. Irving graduated cum laude with a BFA from the Department of Photography and Imaging at NYU’s TISCH School Of The Arts in 2006. Her artwork has been exhibited in galleries and museums in Hong Kong, India, Germany, France, and across The United States. In 2020, her projects SHOW CAVES and NOT AN EXIT won first place at The Budapest International Foto Awards in the Science and Architecture categories. In 2019, NOT AN EXIT and PLANTS IN EXILE won the PX3 award.
• Awards
  ARTIST-IN RESIDENCE: The Varda Artist Residency on a historical houseboat, The SS Vallejo, in Sausalito, CA, 2019 ARTIST-IN RESIDENCE: The National Center for Biological Sciences in Bangalore, India, 2017 BEST IN SHOW: International Photography Competition, Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Nature/Science, 2021 BRONZE: Prix de la Photographie de Paris, Book/Nature, 2021 HONORABLE MENTION: Prix de la Photographie de Paris, Fine Art/Architecture, 2021 HONORABLE MENTION: Monovisions Photography Awards, 2021 2nd PLACE: International Photography Competition, Florida Museum of Photographic Arts - Places/Landscape, 2021 CHOSEN WINNER: American Photography 37, American Illustration and American Photography (AI-AP), 2021 1st PLACE: Budapest International Foto Awards - Architecture, 2020 1st PLACE: Budapest International Foto Awards - Science, 2020 HONORABLE MENTION: Int’l Photography Awards - Analog/Portrait, 2020 HONORABLE MENTION: Int’l Photography Awards - Analog/Landscape, 2020 1st PLACE: International Photo Grant – Landscape, 2019 GOLD: PX3 Paris Photography Prize – Fine Art/Architecture, 2019 GOLD: PX3 Paris Photography Prize – Nature/Trees, 2019 HONORABLE MENTION: Tokyo International Foto Awards, 2019 HONORABLE MENTION: International Photography Awards, 2019 SHORT LIST: Felix Scholler Photo Award, 2019 3rd PLACE: International Competition, The New York Center for Photographic Arts 2019 NOMINEE: United States Artists (USA) Fellowship, 2016 FINALIST: Felix Schoeller Photo Award - Architecture and Landscape, Germany, 2015 JURY AWARD: 4th ANNUAL JURIED EXHIBITION, Gallery 110, Seattle, WA, 2014 HONORABLE MENTION: International Photography Awards, 2013