Charles Borowicz’s Nothing and Nobody

A pop-up exhibition at Studio E

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Charles Borowicz’s current series of photographs capture a quiet, intimate stillness that invites viewers to take a long look. In hotel rooms and other temporary spaces, he documents “whatever is out the window” alongside debris of his existence. 

Charles meticulously blends six to eight separate images to eliminate noise while maintaining graceful detail in the highlights and shadows. This technical mastery transforms dust on a windowpane, unmade beds and empty parking lots into a cinematic experience. The size, cropping, matte finish, mounting and chromogenic print (C-print) choices solidify Charles’ intentionality.

Charles adopts conceptual and structural elements of Philip-Lorca deCorcia, a celebrated street photographer who, with acute attention to detail, expertly conveys an impression of complete stillness and a fleeting moment simultaneously. The title Nothing and Nobody reflects Charles’s interest in finding the sublime within non-events that challenges the viewer to consider the worthwhileness in the everyday. Shooting handheld, he connects the randomness of reality with the magic of “the spaces between.”

With Nothing and Nobody, Charles's immaculate craft offers viewers a temporary escape from their everyday lives to one that is luxurious and bewitching, reminding us that the utterly ordinary is in the eye of the beholder.