Simon Obarzanek was born in Israel in 1968 and currently lives and works in Melbourne. Graduating with a Bachelor of Photography in 1989 from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, his first solo show Simon Obarzanek 96-02 was at Max Bernstein Gallery, Melbourne in 2002. Since then he has had a string of solo shows including Portraits, Max Bernstein Gallery, 2005; 80/137 Faces, 2006, Centre for Contemporary Photography, 2006; 80 faces, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne, 2006 and 10pm-1am, Karen Woodbury Gallery Melbourne, 2007. Obarzanek has also exhibited in numerous group shows in Australia and overseas since 1999. Obarzanek's work...

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During the past two years the Dutch photographer Annet van der Voort called her atelier a floral laboratory. Here she observed the transformation of flowers, especially tulips, which she kept in order to use them in their various states of decay for her art. Her technique for producing these images is modern and completely without camera. In a complex process, she scanned the wilting splendor of the flowers and in doing so created a special visual space that corresponds to her understanding of vanitas, the philosophical idea of the transience of everything mundane. Her images are first and foremost constant attempts to home in on the issue...

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