Dana is a theoretician and writer. She studied linguistics and text theory at Exeter College at Oxford, UK, and has a doctorate in linguistics. She writes contemporary art criticism and fiction. She lives and works in New York.
The incisive vision of Martin Parr made him totally distinctive in the landscape of contemporary art, and many have been trying to paraphrase his vision. His work is a merciless documentary of everyday life.
The characters from Razvan Ion’s photographs travel introspectively in search of their own identity. In a universe bombarding us with hyper exciting stimuli his new series of photographs reevaluates the importance of the conscious individual search for personal identity.