by Marina Rybak

The prestigious Edwynn Houk Gallery is known for representing a special group of prominent contemporary photographers. Just recently the gallery has introduced the latest works of the Iranian-born and Vienna-based Sissi Farassat.

The artist hand-embroiders the photographs she captures. And in the process she creates something uniquely her own – an elaborate, ethereal photo-art, which triggers visually rich sensory experience for the viewer.
Her unassuming, casually provocative … Read More
My first exposure to an English garden was in college when I traveled to Henley on Thames to see my boyfriend compete in the 1972 Olympic Rowing Trials. Their photo finish loss in the finals to Harvard after 4 years of intensive training was disappointing but at least we had several days to distract ourselves in this pretty rural village. Lovely cottages embraced by gorgeous perennial gardens lent an unexpected … 



