Devin Elijah
Devin Elijah is a 28 year old self taught photographer of Jewish & African American decent living & working in New York City. While dividing his attention accordingly between digital, Polaroid and large format mediums, his creative endeavours are presently centred around the use of the aforementioned instant process, with which he began documenting the friends, lovers, strangers and confidants that have populated his life since 2010.
He’s described this collection as “An affidavit of the force of the individual instances in which we live” or as “A visual monograph as memoir, a chronology of the bittersweet sentiment of the indelible inevitability of the passing of time. ”A Chronicle of Love & Loss in Sickness & in Health” is a 94 image collection and growing that has been furthermore, and perhaps most definitively iterated by the artist when recently interviewed as such: “In the case of mine & my subject’s collective experience, with our internal compass as guide, each others lims as occasional, albeit undeniably fragile anchors, we travel streets to the pulse of the insomnia driven heart-beat of where circumstance & circumnavigation has led us all, New York City: Our troubled confidant, our commiserating commissary…Our beautifully, inescapable backdrop.
He’s exhibited internationally in London and Tokyo as well as his Native New York, La Petit Mort marking his Canadian solo show debut.
