BIo:
Nancy A. Scherl is a fine art portrait photographer based in New York City. She distinguishes between her staged portraiture series and her visual stories–the former being social commentary; the latter being social documentary. Stylistically, Nancy emulates cinema verite’ and incorporates Cartier Bresson’s ‘decisive moment.’ In her documentary work, she blurs the boundaries between pictorial, social documentary and street genres. Nancy refers to most of her documentary work as her ‘non-staged realities.’
Scherl has exhibited globally including at FotoNostrum Mediterranean House of Photography, PX3 Espace Beaurepaire, A Smith Gallery, Praxis Gallery, Photoplace Gallery, South X Southeast, Southeast Center for Photography, The Katonah Museum of Art, The Hammond Museum and the Griffin Museum of Photography. She is a two time finalist of Photolucida Critical Mass Top 200 (2019, 2023) and is the recipient of many other awards such as: Arthur Griffin Legacy Award, International Color Awards, The Tokyo International Foto Awards, Budapest International Foto Awards, PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris, International Photography Awards, and was an Overall Winner of the Julia Margaret Cameron –The World Wide Photography Gala Awards where she had a solo show in Barcelona.
Statement:
As a guest at Sera Mey Monastery in Bylakuppe, India, I enjoyed being a part of the Tibetan Buddhist Monk’s everyday life. Though I focused on their scripture studies and debates, there were so many quiet moments that touched me and seemed to connect me to their unique culture. Tibetan Buddhist monks often rescue dogs from the streets in India and care for them at the monastery.
