ARTIST STATEMENT

Josephine Cardin-Vargo is a fine art and portraiture photographer who grew up in South Florida, and is now living and working in the Greater New York City area.

Presently, Josephine has been developing her contemporary figurative work, inspired by music, dance, and the human themes of loneliness, isolation, fear, and transformation. Cardin works primarily in self-portraiture to illustrate scenes that bewitch and explore our human sensibilities through abstract stories with a visual dialogue between the viewer and the artist. 

Josephine's work has been published in Hi-Fructose, InPrint, Digital Camera, Photo+, BLUR, Elegant, Adore Chroma, The Spoiler’s Hand, Lucy’s, beau BU, F-Stop, Dark Beauty, and Dance Magazines; Playbill, and the book Meet The Dancers. She has exhibited with the Menier Gallery in London, ArtMeet Gallery in Milan, Spectrum Gallery in Rochester, NY, The Professional Woman Photographers, and The Boca Raton Museum of Art Juried Exhibition. Most recently she was honored with a first place award by the Prix de La Photographie (PX3) for Between Lock and Key; two Honorable Mentions from the International Photography Awards (ipa); has received honorable mentions for the 2014 and 2015 Julia Margaret Cameron Awards; was selected as a finalist for the Photographer’s Forum Magazine’s The Best of Photography 2014; and was also a finalist for the PhotoNola/International House Mary Magdalene Exhibit in New Orleans 2013. She has done work for the Boston Ballet, Rochester City Ballet, Arts Ballet Theater, and The Broward Center for the Performing Arts; as well as work for corporate clients. Josephine has created numerous pieces for book covers, album art, and collections for several hotels and cruise lines.

She has a BA in art history and an MA in communications. Always an artist in some capacity, Josephine is also an actor and writer, who started out as a ballet dancer, working professionally for the Walt Disney Company. When she isn't making art, she's telling stories on screen or on paper.

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