Seze’s work begins and ends in the darkroom. There is no camera so there is no negative unless you consider the hand cut stencils and darkroom props she uses to manipulate the light of the enlarger. Each image is uniquely frozen in a series of creative painterly exposures. The end results swing from graphic to expressionistic and all shades and degrees in between. Like a mad scientist playing away in her laboratory, Seze turns the seemingly simple photogram into complex and sophisticated compositions that speak to color, line formal relationships and dimensional space in all of the same ways that representational photography does without ever compromising and suggesting anything representational.
Seze Devres, of Turkish decent, was raised in New York City. She has been creating camera-less photographs (photograms) that explore the potential of light and color through abstraction since 1995. She has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in the United States, Turkey and France. Seze’s photogram process has gained worldwide recognition and was highlighted in the photo text book “Exploring Color Photography”.
Seze has taught photography and new media art at Kutztown University, the International Center of Photography and 3rd Ward in NYC. She studied anatomy at the Art Students League as a teenager, received a BA from Bard College and completed her Masters Degree in Photography & Related Media at the School of Visual Arts where she was awarded the Aaron Siskind scholarship / chairman grant.