Fabio Kahn
Fabio Rosenthal Kahn

My passions: photography and drawing.

My work has been published in magazines and exhibitions from São Paulo to Jerusalem.

I'm a professional architect with experience in Brazil and Israel.

 

 

      

About

Fabio Rosenthal Kahn is an architect, graduate of Puc-Campinas (2002), Brazil.

Originally from São Paulo,Brazil, he now lives in Israel.

 

He discovered his love for photography when studying at university. He continued to develop his art after his graduation at Art school_USP_ (University of Sao Paulo) with the photographer Joao Musa. Drawing was always his natural way of expression. He join "landscape drawing" with Marco Butti at USP (University of Sao Paulo_Art School) and continued studing drawing at Sesc-pompeia, Atelie Coringa. He join the Prestes Maia occupy in Sao Paulo downtown together with different groups of independent artists.  In Israel he also continued to study photography at Technion and drawing at Sadnat omanei ha Kibutz in Tel Aviv. Actually he is studing oil painting with Yonat Cintra in her studio.

 

Recently, photography and drawings have been displayed at the following exhibitions:

2006 -"Imprecisões" ("Impressisons") - a photographic essay about the São Paulo city center made by manual processing of development and press. All the pictures were taken with a 120mm camera. One of the objectives was to reach the poetry of the passage from the city, including ourselfs as part of it. The essay was based in gray tones, reaching a greater quantity of tones. The images has been captured wih long photographic exposure resulting in the movement of all passing people, autos and busses. The exhibition venue at AMAM brought the photography backs to it's place, downtown.


2006 -"Uma visao lenta sobre uma vida que nao para" ("A slow vision of a life that doesn`t stops") - A photographic essay with the objective to understand and make a photographic machine. The machine used was pin-hole that allows long exposure. Most of the photographs were taken at the end of the day. The resulting images were presented as part of a personal project at Sesc-Pompeia, São Paulo.


2007 -"Chuva Noite"(Rain at Night) - at 8 rosas (8 roses gallery), an essay about the rain. Was done with more 5 photographers. This exhibition portrayed strong feelings shown though high contrast B/W pictures.


2008 -"Path"(Caminhos) - at Mercaz ha Magshimim (Jerusalem, Israel), this exhibition is an photographic essay of simple life in Egypt and Jerusalem. The objective is to give the time and a perspective of the observer reaching the possibility of walking together through the pictures. The results portray simple scenes reaching differents interpretations.

 

2009 - Exhibition "Path" as part of the city meets Art at Jerusalem. Exhibition that contains path and nude model drawings from September 11th to November 18  at Mazal Arie 5 in Jaffa, next to Tel Aviv.  

 2011- Publication of 5 photographs at book_"da luz(e) da sombra" (from the shades (&) lights) a colective Photography book, at  Edicoes Vieira da Silva, Portugal.  Actually invited to more one book to be published in Portugal "Fragrâncias de Luz" (Light fragrances), expect to be published until the end of 2011. 

Published works can be found in the following art magazines: