ABRI MARS is thrilled to present One of One, a group exhibition curated by Aaron Stern featuring photographic works by Daniel Arnold, Juan Brenner, Mike Brodie, Mark Borthwick, Rebekka Deubner, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Barbara Ess, Jerry Hsu, Shaniqwa Jarvis, Irina Rozovsky, Gray Sorrenti, and Mario Sorrenti. Marking the gallery's one-year anniversary on the eve of New York Fashion Week, this exhibition confronts the ceaseless proliferation of image-making at a time when online syntheticity holds sway, alternatively offering to engage with photography as a material object. 

In One of One, curator Aaron Stern asks us to reconsider the photograph as more than an image—a physical object that demands to be experienced in person. In an era where most pictures exist digitally, viewed fleetingly on screen before disappearing into an endless scroll, this exhibition calls for a return to presence and materiality.

Photographs today often live as detritus, stored on our phones and in the heap of the internet, stripped of their physicality. This collection of works pushes against that trend, celebrating the photograph as an object that carries weight, texture, and story that cannot be fully conveyed through a screen.

The works in One of One include Polaroids, prints, collage, and photograms, demonstrating the richness of engaging with photography in its tangible form. Polaroids, with their instant and singular nature, offer intimacy and immediacy; prints, demanding closer inspection, evoke a sense of quiet discovery; collage, with peripheral elements such as handwritten notes, creased paper, or torn edges; and photograms, expressing the delicately powerful nature of light as a physical medium, reminding us that photographs are as much about the context of their creation as the image itself.

This exhibition is an invitation to experience photographs as they were meant to be seen: in person, where their material presence and physical nuances resonate. It is a call to value photography as more than a fleeting digital record, to re-engage with its potential to preserve, provoke, and endure. In doing so, One of One underscores photography’s role not only as art, but as an artifact of human connection and memory.

Opening Reception → 05 Sept 2025, 6pm–8pm

The exhibition will be accompanied by events to be announced online. For further information, please contact info@abrimars.com

ABOUT THE ARTISTS →

DANIEL ARNOLD (b 1980 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, lives and works in New York, New York) is recognized for his candid street photography that takes on a spontaneous approach characterized by a focus on the quirky, humorous, and raw everyday aspects of daily life, particularly in New York City. Often regarded as part of a new wave of street photographers reshaping documentary photography alongside social media’s role in visual storytelling, Arnold’s images appear regularly in The New York Times, Vogue, and Interview, among others. Selected exhibitions include Hard Copy, Webber Gallery, Los Angeles, California; Hard Copy, WSA, New York, New York; Daniel Arnold: New York Life, New York Life Gallery, New York, New York; Daniel Arnold: Nothing, Larrie, New York, New York.

JUAN BRENNER (b 1977 Guatemala City, Guatemala, where they live and work) worked as a fashion photographer in New York for over a decade, eventually returning to his native Guatemala where he began using photography to reflect on the fluidity and abstract nature of identity and territory, capturing the complexities of cultural hybridization and, more poignantly, the way power, hierarchical structures, and inequality are instrumentally continued through time. Brenner’s first monograph, Tonatiuh, was shortlisted for the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation First PhotoBook Award and was a winner of LensCulture’s Emerging Talent Award. He is a founding member of Proyectos Ultravioleta in Guatemala City. Brenner’s works have been featured in Aperture, British Journal of Photography, Le Monde, VICE, C-41, Fisheye, Paper Journal, Collector Daily, i-D, Dazed, Metal Magazine, Musée Magazine, and Balam.

MARK BORTHWICK (b 1966 London, England, lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal) has blurred the line between art, photography, and poetry through an approach of image-making that is characterized by a spontaneous analog process of combining overexposed film with natural, ephemeral light. The resulting raw, painterly images prioritize feeling and sensory experience over narrative representation. Borthwick’s intimate, evocative imagery subverted the traditional conventions of the fashion genre, creating defining works for Maison Martin Margiela, Missoni, Yohji Yamamoto, Courrèges, and publications such as Vogue, Purple, and The Face.

MIKE BRODIE (b 1985 Mesa, Arizona, lives and works in Biloxi, Mississippi) documented a critically acclaimed body of work capturing the raw intimacy of American transient subcultures while freight train-hopping for years across the United States under the moniker “The Polaroid Kidd.” Selected solo exhibitions include Sitter, Canzani Center Gallery, Columbus Collage of the Art & Design, Columbus, Ohio; A Period of Juvenile Prosperity, Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, France; Collecto’s Gavorites, Leica Gallery, Los Angeles, California; Only the Good Ones: The Snapshot Aesthetic Revisited, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague Czech Republic; A Period of Juvenile Prosperity, Stephen Writz Gallery, San Francisco, California; A Period of Juvenile Prosperity, M+B Gallery, Los Angeles, California; A Period of Juvenile Prosperity, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, New York; Perchance to Dream, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, New York; Presumed Innocence, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts; among others. Selected collections include the Collection of Sir Elton John, Atlanta, Georgia; SFMOMA, San Francisco, California; BAMPFA, Berkeley, California.

REBEKKA DEUBNER (b 1989 Munich, Germany, lives and works in Paris, France) creates imagery between the organic realm of metamorphosis and the unconscious. Her lived experiences bond the mind and its environment, where absence is felt everywhere like a presence—jostled together with avatars of the intangible—myths, memories, desires—gradually composing a persistent archive where they all intersect. Through this process, Deubner rediscoveries the original within the present, creating works that possess both the innocence of children’s games and the depth of knowing that, in the end, only mystery remains. Selected exhibitions include Science/Fiction—A Non-History of Plants, LaMEP, Paris, France (2024); À Partir D’Elle, Le BAL, Paris, France (2023); Tempête Après Tempête, Espace Jörg Brockmann Carouge, Switzerland (2021); Les Morves D'Azur, Progress Gallery, Paris, France (2021). Deubner holds a Diplôme de Gobelins from l'École de l'Image en Photographie, Paris, France (2013).

PHILIP-LORCA DICORCIA (b 1951 Hartford, Connecticut, lives and works in New York, New York) is included in a generation of photographers who sought to explore and challenge the boundaries of the medium. Over the past three decades, diCorcia has become known for his meticulously planned and executed photographs involving a variety of individuals in preconceived, yet seemingly random positions and contexts, exploring the tension between the accidental and the fated, the documentary and theatrical, operating in the interstices of fact and fiction. Selected solo exhibitions include David Zwirner (multiple locations internationally); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England; Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts; LACMA, Los Angeles, California. Selected collections include The Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; De Pont Museum, Tilburg, Netherlands; LACMA, Los Angeles, California; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas; Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; MOCA, Los Angeles, California; MoMA, New York, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan; SFMOMA, San Francisco, Califonia; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York; Tate, United Kingdom; V&A Museum, London, England; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York. diCorcia’s academic background in photography includes the University of Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut; the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts; and holds an MFA in Photography from Yale University. Exhibited works by Philip-Lorca diCorcia at ABRI MARS are courtesy of David Zwirner, New York, New York.

BARBARA ESS (American, 1944 – 2021) was renowned for using unconventional methods to underline the subjective nature of experience and representation, such as her haunting pinhole photographs and performing in experimental bands as part of the downtown New York art scene of the 1980s and 90s. Employing lo-fi optical devices and image systems such as small telescopes and toy microscopes, Ess embraced the glitches and unintended artifacts resulting from her processes, seeking to depict the uncertainties of perception and uncover “ambiguous perceptual boundaries between people, between the self and the not self, and between ‘in’ here and ‘out’ there.” Selected exhibitions include White Columns, New York, New York; Queens Museum, Queens, New York; Pérez Art Museum, Miami, Florida; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada; The Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey; Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; V&A Museum, London, England; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan. Selected collections include The Jewish Museum, New York, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York; MOCA, Los Angeles, California; SFMOMA, San Francisco, California, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; The Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris, France; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas. Ess’s academic background includes the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan; the London School of Film Technique in London, England; and was an Associate Professor of Photography at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, for over two decades. Exhibited works by Barbara Ess at ABRI MARS are courtesy of Magenta Plains and the Estate of Barbara Ess, New York, New York. 

JERRY HSU (b 1981 San Jose, California, lives and works in Los Angeles, California) is a multidisciplinary artist and photographer whose work blends personal narrative with cultural observation, intersecting with his background as a professional skateboarder. Selected exhibitions include Hard Copy, Webber Gallery, Los Angeles, California; Hard Copy, WSA, New York, New York; The Observable Universe, Family on Fairfax, Los Angeles, California; Vatican Gold, Steinsland Berliner Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden.

SHANIQWA JARVIS (b 1978 New York, New York, lives and works in Los Angeles, California) combines a modern fashion aesthetic with emotional portraiture, speaking to raw, disparate feelings imbued with a deep, sparkling optimism across a variety of subjects. Selected exhibitions include Hard Copy, Los Angeles, California, Webber Gallery (2025); When The Veil Things, Compound, Long Beach, California (2025); Come Go With Me, Bodega 245, New York, New York (2024); Dear Summer, Pio Pico Gallery, Los Angeles, California (2024); Hard Copy, WSA, New York, New York (2024); Gumbo, Anthony Gallery, Chicago (2023); Everywhere You Go, There You Are, Control, Los Angeles, California (2023); Rituals, HVW8, Los Angeles, California (2020); Born Not Made, The Hole, New York, New York (2012); Selected collections include Mohn Art Collective (MAC3), Los Angeles, California. Jarvis holds a BFA in Photography from Parsons School of Design, New York, New York (2000).

IRINA ROZOVSKY (b 1981 Moscow, Russia, lives and works in Athens, Georgia) explores the connection between external landscapes and interior states, often with an interest in diaspora and cultural memory, transforming her images of places into subjective, emotional experiences. Selected exhibitions include A Long Arc, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, Virginia (2024), New York Now: Home, Museum of the City of NY, New York, New York (2023); A Long Arc, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia (2023); De L’Amour, Box Galerie, Brussels, Belgium (2022); Mother!, KuMa, Mannheim, Germany (2021); Mother!, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark (2021); Companion Pieces: New Photography, MoMA, New York, New York (2020); To See Your Face, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon (2019); At Home: In the American West, Aperture Gallery, New York, New York (2019); Island in my Mind, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (2018); Talking Pictures, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York (2017); Shadows Are Cast, Australian Centre of Photography, Sydney, Australia (2017); Exalted Positions, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, New York (2016). Selected collections include MoMA, New York, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York; The Museum of the City of New York, New York, New York; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, Virginia; Light Work Collection, Syracuse, New York. Rozovsky holds an MFA in Photography from Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt), Boston, Massachusetts (2007).

GRAY SORRENTI (b 2000 New York, New York, where they live and work) began documenting her generation’s emergent youth scene with a sense of poise beyond her years, forging connections with her subjects as she refined the naturally stylish and deeply personal portraiture that has become her signature. Recognized for her intense creative curiosity and skillful subcultural reportage, Gray shot her first fashion campaign at the age of 16, and has since established herself as one of the industry’s most dynamic young imagemakers, creating images and videography for Calvin Klein, La Mer, Loewe, Moncler, Rimowa, and Saint Laurent. Her editorial work has appeared in i-D, Harper’s Bazaar, WSJ Magazine, L’Uomo Vogue, Document Journal, Self Service, among others. Selected exhibitions include Hard Copy, Webber Gallery, Los Angeles, California; Hard Copy, WSA, New York, New York.

MARIO SORRENTI (b 1971 Naples, Italy, lives and works in New York, New York) has been an important part of contemporary fashion photography since the early 90s. Capturing photographs that are characterized by confident, experimental compositions, Sorrenti has captured images for AnOther Magazine, Document Journal, i–D, The New York Times, Vogue, W, Self Service, and has produced commercial works for Bulgari, Calvin Klein, Chanel, Dior, Estée Lauder, Ferragamo, Hugo Boss, Jil Sander, Revlon, Shiseido, Tom Ford, and Yves Saint Laurent. Selected exhibitions include Mario Sorrenti: KATE, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, Texas; Mario Sorrenti and John Baldessari, Half Gallery, New York, New York; The Kate Moss Portfolio and Other Stories, Danziger Gallery, New York, New York; Fashioning Fiction in Photography Since 1990, MoMA, New York, New York. Selected collections include the National Portrait Gallery, London, England, and the V&A Museum, London, England.