Lisa Kachajian is an American photographer, a native New Yorker, and a New Jerseyan whose work is deeply influenced by music, painters, and photographers, alike. Born in New York City and raised in New Jersey, she grew up in an environment rich in music and deep cultural influences. She spends her time between music and photography. Since September 2019 making photographs for her ongoing photo essay, UpCountry.
Working in a recording studio for over twenty years as a photographer and vocalist, she currently photographs artists during recording sessions.
Sensitive to emotions, shadows, and light, Lisa's image-making focuses on gestures and lyrical beauty found in the moment.
She uses digital and film media, and historical photographic processing techniques, writing and researching her work from her studio, in a former rural community, twenty-eight miles from Manhattan.
StatementLisa Kachajian is an visual artist based in northern New Jersey. In my practice, I look for moments that are at once familiar, yet unexpected, residing within and outside of reality and illusion. Recent work also includes images that experience the natural world.
CvCurriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
International Center of Photography - Certificate Personal Vision and Portfolio
Union College, Schenectady, NY - B.A. English Literature
COMPETITIONS/EXHIBITIONS
2024 Portfolio Development Exhibition, Soho Photo Gallery, New York NY
2024 VB Contemporary Washington, DC Online Art Gallery, Summer Haze Exhibition
2024 Salmagundi Club 46th Annual Photography Exhibition, Rockwell Gallery, New York, NY
2024 Edward Hopper House Part 2 - Members Exhibition, Nyack, NY
22nd Julia Margaret Cameron Award - FotoNostrum Magazine 283, 292, 311; Honorable Mention in Category Open Theme – Single; Honorable Mention in Category People – Single; Honorable Mention in Category Portrait - Single; Exhibition December 2024 Barcelona, Spain
2023 Critical Mass Top 200 Finalist Photo Lucida
2023 May 30th - June 23rd,
Salmagundi Club 45th Annual Photography Exhibition Rockwell Gallery, Rhonda Through the Barn Window and Winter’s Poetry, from the photo essay UpCountry, ongoing, since September 2019
2023 Portfolio Development Exhibition Soho Photo Gallery June 6th - June 11th 2023, Three photographs from my 2023 Self-Published book, Random Sessions: Close – Up, focusing on live recording studio sessions and musicians.
2022, July A Smith Gallery Johnson City, Texas. “animalia” Henry Horenstein, Juror, Rhonda Through the Barn Window - from the photo essay, UpCountry, ongoing, since September 2019
2022 Portfolio Development Exhibition Soho Photo Gallery, Finn and the Garden Hose, Rhonda Through the Barn Window, from the photo essay UpCountry, ongoing, since September 2019.
2022 July 18th - August 5th, 2022 Salmagundi Club 44th Annual Photography Exhibition - Rockwell Gallery, Rhonda Reclined from the photo essay, UpCountry, ongoing, since September 2019.
2021 Soho Photo Gallery National Competition, Juror, Shawn Theodore. Three photographs selected for online exhibition: “Helle in the Kitchen,” “Barn Obscura” and Honorable Mention – “Rhonda Reclined” Exhibition: August 13 – September 5, 2021, from the photo essay, UpCountry, ongoing, since September 2019.
2020 High Priestess Project – Inside and Out/ indoor pets and outdoor wildlife - Curated by Sherri Nienass Littlefield – “Dusk on the Meadow”
2019 Visions of Woodcliff Lake – First Prize for “Sunrise on the Meadow” photo part of the Woodcliff Lake archive and on permanent exhibition at the Woodcliff Lake, NJ Borough Hall.
Awards
2024 Honorable Mentions FotoNostrum 22nd Julia Margaret Cameron Awards
2023 Photo Lucida Critical Mass – Top 200
2021 Soho Photo Gallery National Competition - Honorable Mention – Rhonda Reclined
2019 First Prize – Visions of Woodcliff Lake – Sunrise on the Meadow
Music Projects:
2021 Richard Sorce – “Bossambal Brazil” 14-track studio album Released 2021 submitted to the Grammy Awards for Consideration in the 2022 Grammy Awards – Contributed vocal arrangements and vocalise performances
Published Writing:
2017 Article for Jazz Monthly - Richard Sorce
StateNJ
CountryUnited States
