Emy Kat

Background

Emy Kat was born in 1959, of a Middle Eastern descent. Developing a love for the medium at an early age, he started photography when his father gave him his first camera at age 12.

Career

He is contemporary photographer whose large body of work has been built over several decades. Kat began his career in fashion photography, portraits, commercial advertising and has shifted in 2009 to Contemporary Art and Fine-art photography. A Researcher and a photographer, Kat is best known for his explorations of culture and heritage as well as landscape and spiritual transformations.

In 2013, the artist has introduced a new technique in contemporary Art classified as a Post medium condition, lieutenant is a type of “digital Collage” Kat calls it "Mental Spaces", The art work deals with capturing a given space and connects several images taken from various angles to create one image, offering the viewer a chance to experience a given space from multiple angles in one gaze.

"This technique allows me to cover several dimensions of a space and to effectively sum up all the facts into a single visual". a sample of "Mental Spaces" by Emy Kat titled "Indoors" 2013

The artist is included in a number of private collections and his iconography work (Nude studies on Platinum - Etudes Nu femme), describing the superiority of the woman in her creation, is a permanent collection and is archived by the BNF Bibliothèque nationale de France (2000). The collection is under Reference number Ep-4001-Boîte pet. fol.(Collection Publiques).

Film vs digital

Although the artist majored in digital imaging, Emy Kat chose to work and mostly use photographic film. This is due to limitations in digital photography.

In 2008, he started using a high end digital camera back system by LEAF. However, most of his fine art work, Kat continues to use photographic film with large format view camera and medium format (film) camera.

Notable artwork

Nude studies of women on platinum (Etudes Nus femme) Archived and collected by the BNF Bibliothèque nationale de France (2000). Reference number Ep-4001-Boîte pet. fol.(Collection Publiques)

Louisiana Pass Murraille - series of 5 images - edition 3 - (1999)

Souls on the streets (Ames Dans les Rues) - (2009)

The Everlasting Now - (2012-2013) solo exhibition, Athr Gallery 21,39 Moallaqat Exhibition 1st edition Art Dubai Solo Exhibition, Bin Mattar House Paris Photo 1er Biennale des photographes du mond Arabe - Institute du Mond Arabe - Paris

Book contributions

Kat"s photographs have been included in several books published by Graphis Incorporated. (2007) "Photography Annual"

(2006) "Photography Annual"

(2000) "Nude 3"

(1998) "Photography Annual"

(1997) Annual Design.

Achievements

• He went on to refine his craft in United States of America and received a graduate degree in 1997 from the Brooks Institute of photography in Santa Barbara, California, (United States of America) with exceptional academic achievements and honors along with awards in Advertising and Creative Excellence.