about Jerome Abramovitch
For the past 15 years, he has evolved from an underground artist shooting personal & documentary work to a commercial photographer taking on the worlds of entertainment, sports, fashion and advertising.
Jerome’s inherent nature to seek, explore and be that which is different has gained him the kind of recognition and marketable appeal that can only be attained by such an unconventional and driven individual. The stark honesty of his photographs is testament to who he is as an artist, the eccentric characters that surround him and the intimate bonds they share.
His work and his own image are well recognized in Europe, Japan, not to mention the Americas… at least in the right circles. Jerome moves seamlessly between object, subject, voyeur, and documenter.
Jerome’s extreme creativity has been immortalized twice in the Guinness World Book of Records; he has been featured in media worldwide such as Ripley’s Believe it or Not, the Learning Channel, the Ricki Lake Show, Pro-Sieben in Germany, Medical Incredible in Australia, on top of countless magazines and internet sites. He is also notoriously known as the cover model for the Modcon Books (North American & Japanese editions) documenting the Modern Primitive 2.0 movement of the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Exhibitions include the September 2009 “Retrospective One” Tokyo solo exhibit at The Ghetto Hyaku Gallery in conjunction with legendary underground photojournalist Ryoichi “Keroppy” Maeda & photographer Toshiyuki Hattori (Osaka), as well as the November/December 2008 ProjectMessenger solo exhibit at Montreal’s legendary underground Foufounes Électriques. His Modern Primitive 2.0 work has also been featured in the “Skin Talks” group exhibit at the Quebec City Museum of Civilization.
Jerome is currently in pre-production for the third phase of his Mannequin Series, while pursuing bigger business markets, sponsorship deals and wrapping up new work shot at the Cycle Messenger World Championships held in Tokyo September 2009. The winter 2009-2010 website is also currently in development.
Travel plans for 2010 include the Cycle Messenger World Championships being held in Panajachel Guatamala in September 2010. His projectmessenger.com book is scheduled for a 2011 release.
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