Natural Fashion: A BOX OF PORTRAITS by Cary Wolinsky

Edition limited to ten customized, signed and numbered portfolio boxes,
containing 13 prints.
The Archival Pigment Prints are printed on 14” x 14” paper.
for pricing Please contact Pucker Gallery of Boston at 617 267-9473.

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During my 50 years of travel while photographing for National Geographic magazine I have witnessed how the creative process played out in villages where the making of traditional textiles bound communities together as a way of life. Every design embodied a tug-of-war between the pressure of tribal conformity and that of individual passion.  Ancient techniques were refined or tweaked as they passed from mother to daughter and father to son. All of this combined into a living energy, a sort of DNA that exists in the textiles and clothing that people wear. 

I was often awed by the elegance of everyday clothing. The fishermen pulling nets, the street vendor selling chai, and the women transplanting rice paddy...many seemed to have an innate sense of fashion no matter their circumstances. I came to believe in a “natural fashion” born of ecosystems where design evolves organically and is shaped over time, by weather, by plant and animal fibers, and by human needs. 

Through the portraits I have chosen for this collection, I am able to revisit many cultures even though so many of the traditions have disappeared.