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Oil Portrait Gallery
TECHNOLOGY + PROJECT MANAGEMENT
TECHNOLOGY + PROJECT MANAGEMENT

THE ARTIST
Sean Hemmerle
Poughkeepsie, NY
Sean Hemmerle is a Poughkeepsie, NY based photographer whose work ranges from international conflict zones to contemporary architecture. His monograph, "THEM," containing portraits from Afghanistan and Iraq, was published by Kehrer Verlag in 2018. His three-year documentation of the Orange County Government Center in Goshen, NY, was partially funded by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Hemmerle's photographs of the American Rust Belt from Detroit, Pittsburgh, Toledo, Gary, and Albany were widely published, and internationally exhibited. He collaborated with the Columbia Journalism Review on the “Media Nodes” project, a photographic survey of more than sixty American newsrooms, over ten years.
Hemmerle is represented by Galerie Julian Sander in Cologne, Germany and by the Front Room in New York City. His work can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the International Center for Photography, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and many private collections.

THE ART
Fall Kill Falls at Metro North Bridge, 2018
Photography
The Fall Kill Creek runs quietly, at times invisibly, through the center of the city of Poughkeepsie. The history of its usage parallels that of the area and is similar to the Queen City: the Fall Kill needs help. Polluted and neglected, the Fall Kill presents a dynamic opportunity to restore and improve a vital watershed. Sean Hemmerle’s transformative, large scale photos of this hidden artery provide an inspired argument for the Fall Kill’s preservation, increases water awareness, and reveals a public landscape hidden in plain sight.
Location 11
This artwork can be found at the Ulster Service Area in Ruby, NY.