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Gallery CAMERA WORK in Berlin presents from August 2nd to September 13th June photographs by Robert Polidori. The first individual museum exhibition of his work took place at the Berlin Martin-Gropius-Bau in 2006, also curated by CAMERA WORK.

The upcoming exhibition will present Polidori's new fascinating series of the Russian Kremlin for the very first time. Furthermore, his series of the Palace of Versailles, the Cuban capital of Havana, as well as architecture photographs of New York will be shown.

The photographer Robert Polidori, born in Montreal in 1951, is in search of the ravages of time which he finds at the most diverse sites. In the process, Polidori is not only interested in the architecture of his chosen spaces but frequents deserted locations where the traces of history are still distinctly legible. The different spaces, with their unique patina or courtly splendor, tell countless stories and serve as a backdrop for the observer's imagination.

Polidori fixates his objects from a certain distance with the goal of finding the "emblematic moment". The photographic still lifes captivate through their color and unique quality. The specific compositions of his motifs moreover evoke a timeless mood.

Polidori develops a keen sense for the changes in specific places. The impressive attention to details displayed in his large-sized photographs entices the observer to study the works with great intensity. Thus, one or other oddity can be discovered: such as the green plastic ice-cream spoon which was apparently forgotten in an otherwise so accurate and squeamishly-composed theater auditorium.

Photo reports in magazines such as "The New Yorker"- the main photographer of which he is in addition to Martin Schoeller- "Geo," "Vanity Fair," or "Architectural Digest" form the foundation of Polidori's international success, which was officially when awarded prizes such as the Deutscher Fotobuchpreis 2006/2007 and the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award 2002. In November he will receive the "Liliane Bettencourt Prix de La Photographie" prize for his work. The publication of his series on the reactor catastrophe in Chernobyl is a frightening documentation of human failure. The exhibition "New Orleans, After the Flood" was shown in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2006 and displayed the disastrous consequences of Hurricane Katrina. This series gained broad recognition throughout a traumatized American population.