Patricia Burmicky
In 2008, Patricia Burmicky moved to New York City from Venezuela with a dream of changing into a photographer.
She took lessons on the International Center of Photography and inside a couple of years opened her personal college, PhotoUno in Midtown.
“Being an immigrant, coming here and making my dreams of being a teacher and photographer, I wanted to inspire young girls through images,” Burmicky, who’s Venezuelan and Slovenian, instructed The Post.
In 2020, she began “The Woman I Will Become.” She photographed New York City women who impressed her with their tenacity and skill to make it of their chosen fields.
“I started taking pictures of women who had incredible stories,” she stated, including that her photographs have a “dreamy look with lots of layers” and take as much as eight hours to provide as she pictures and Photoshops every layer.
The sequence features a Japanese pianist who performed Carnegie Hall, a sustainable fashionista from Uganda and a soprano from a small city in Indiana. She refers to them solely by their first names, as a result of, she stated “it is less formal.”
In addition, she launched a photograph contest in Venezuela for feminine photographers to seize the identical. As International Women’s Month involves a detailed, Burmicky is sharing her work and the consequence of the competition, each of which will probably be on show at Blue Gallery in Midtown by means of March 25.
Here are some of Burmicky’s intricate photographs.
The soprano
Hailing from a small city in Indiana, Monica knew she wished to develop into a singer after she heard her sister carry out Mozart’s “Laudate Dominum.”
“She made her way from Indiana to NYC and sing for the Metropolitan Opera,” stated Burmicky of her topic.
The make-up artist
Adiee, who’s from the Dominican Republic, labored with Burmicky on her sequence by serving to to beautify her topics. But she then grew to become one.
“She really started in mental-health counseling and realized her real passion was to pursue makeup, and later during the pandemic, she decided to go back to school and become and esthetician,” stated Burmicky.
The pianist
“Junko came from a small town in Japan, and came here to study under a composer,” stated Burmicky, including that Junko was one of her first topics. “She hired me to photograph her playing at Carnegie Hall.”
But she shortly impressed Burmicky together with her immigrant story and in addition launched the shutterbug to different topics.
The sustainable fashionista
Coming from Uganda, Paula had a special relationship with clothes: making her personal and recycling materials. After shifting to the US, she was shocked at how wasteful our relationship is with consumerism and quick trend.
“She seeks to educate and promote slow, vintage and thrift fashion,” stated Burmicky.
The flautist
“She was such an enthusiastic student of photography,” stated Burmicky of her pupil.
But whereas the photographer was watching “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” she caught Tara in a scene enjoying the flute. “I didn’t realize she was also a talented flautist.”
In reality, Tara is a two-time Grammy nominee with an Avery Fisher Career Grant.
