BIOGRAPHY
Serge is a self-taught artist. He began his professional career as a magazine photographer during which time his work appeared in many magazines, including The New York Times Magazine, The London Sunday Times Magazine, and Harpers. Serge is a member of the faculty at the International Center of Photography in Manhattan and also guest lectures and teaches at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. He is represented by Gallery 339 in Philadelphia which in 2007 mounted a solo-exhibition of his street photography titled “In Private”. The show was very favorably reviewed by Edith Newhall in the Philadelphia Inquirer. In the Spring of 2008 Serge’s work is on exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and at Schroeder Romero/Winkleman gallery's project space in the Chelsea art district of Manhattan. In the fall of 2007 his work was in the Pink show at the Perkins Center for the Arts. In addition, Serge has had solo exhibitions at the Leica Gallery in Tokyo and French Trotters in Paris. His work is held in the collections of The Museum of the City of New York and The Buhl Foundation. In 2007 Serge was invited to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Jentel Artist Residency Program. In 2006 he was a winner in The Magenta Foundation’s Emerging Photographer Contest. In 2005 Serge was commissioned by the Franklin Institute Museum in Philadelphia to create an exhibit of self-portraiture.
While Serge continues his personal journal/street work by carrying a 35mm. film camera through every waking moment, he is also working on a self portrait project using large format cameras.
