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Ari Salomon Fine Art Photography

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October 22, 2022

6 Feet Apart

Most recent exhibitions: @Birdhouse Gallery, @Pingyao

Statement

This typology investigates the ubiquitous ground markers directing people standing in line to keep 6 feet apart to prevent the spread of COVID-19. These markers are often just a single piece of tape adhered to concrete and distressed from months of being stepped on.

This photographic method of collecting, sorting, and classifying is a reflection on the scientific processes employed to fight the pandemic. These analytical processes are visualized in grids, bar graphs, and other references to visual methods of displaying quantitative information.

The recurring theme of repetition also reflects the tedious nature of many of the life changes we have had to endure. Within these groupings, fresh insights emerge. The subtle differences reveal beautiful variations as the eye tunes into this minimal landscape.

Using a detached, documentary style offers an opportunity for viewers to reflect on the quiet moments as well as the irony of working together by staying apart.

Zine

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Installation Videos

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Images

Here are just a few single images and groupings, see the videos for a better understanding of how these images are presented as installations.

 

6 Feet Apart #5777
6 Feet Apart #6845
6 Feet Apart #6758

6 Feet Apart #6744
6 Feet Apart #0599
6 Feet Apart #0579

6 Feet Apart #3054
6 Feet Apart #2982
6 Feet Apart #41

6 Feet Apart #4787
6 Feet Apart #4801
6 Feet Apart #4096

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Installation Images

Pingyao International Photography Festival (2025)
Pingyao International Photography Festival (2025)
Installation at Marin Art and Garden Center (2024)
Installation at Marin Art and Garden Center (2024)
Grey Loft Gallery, 2024
Installation at Transmission Gallery, SF, 2023
Installation at Transmission Gallery, SF, 2023
Installation at Transmission Gallery, SF, 2023
Installation at Minnesota Street Project, SF, 2022
Installation at Sanchez Art Center 2a023
Installation at Sanchez Art Center, 2023
Installation at Head On Photo Festival (Sydney) 2023
Installation at Head On Photo Festival (Sydney) 2023
Installation at Head On Photo Festival (Sydney) 2023
Installation at Head On Photo Festival (Sydney) 2023

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Sticker set

Exhibitions

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  • Solo Exhibitions:
    • 6 Feet Apart, Birdhouse Gallery, SF, 2025
    • Head On Photo Festival, Sydney, AU, 2023
    • 6 Feet Apart, Transmission Gallery, SF, 2023
  • Group Exhibitions:
    • Where Time’s Echoes Repeat at the Pingyao International Photography Festival (winner of the “Phoenix of Pingyao”)
    • Center for Photographic Art Juried Exhibition (Juror: Allie Haeusslein)
    • Memento Mori | Memento Vivere, Marin Art and Garden Center
    • Articulate Turns 13, Sydney, AU
    • Fraction Magazine (online)
    • 50|50, Sanchez Art Center
    • Lenscratch feature: 6 Feet Apart
    • The New World, Minnesota Street Project (Curated by Sandra Phillips)

6 Feet Apart

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Ari Salomon is a fine art photographer working in San Francisco.

Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

  • Change at the Magnes Collection

    11/16/25, 11-4pm, The Magnes, Berkeley

  • Pingyao International Photography Festival

    September 19-23, 2025

  • SF Photobook Fair

    10/18-10/19

  • Fraction Magazine 15th Anniversary Selections

    Online exhibition

  • Lenscratch feature: 6 Feet Apart

    Online Feature

Recent Exhibitions

  • Lasting Evidence: featured in Professional Photographer magazine
  • Ephemeral Earth at Alameda Photo Festival
  • Startup Art Fair @ Hotel del Sol
  • 6 Feet Apart @ Birdhouse
  • Float Magazine Instagram Takeover

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Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

  • Change at the Magnes Collection

    11/16/25, 11-4pm, The Magnes, Berkeley

  • Pingyao International Photography Festival

    September 19-23, 2025

  • SF Photobook Fair

    10/18-10/19

Instagram

These photographs are part of Burn Line, presented These photographs are part of Burn Line, presented alongside the pyrotypes.

While Burn Line often focuses on small, personal objects-items carried, used, and held-Lost Landscapes widens the frame. These images offer grounding and scale: the places where fire moved through land, homes, and neighborhoods. They provide context for the objects by showing the environments that shaped, and were altered by, the same events.

All of these landscape photographs were made by me, on site.
Shown together with the charcoal works, they create a dialogue between the intimate and the expansive, the relic and the terrain-between what was carried away and what remains.
#BurnLine #LostLandscapes #WildfireAftermath #PhotographyAndFire #MemoryAndPlace
Recently, my photo was selected to be "photo of th Recently, my photo was selected to be "photo of the week" by the J Weekly. 

See link in bio for the full story they wrote about the whole group exhibition at the Magnes Collection.
Lost Landscapes 
These photographs are part of Bur Lost Landscapes

These photographs are part of Burn Line, presented alongside the pyrotypes.

While Burn Line often focuses on small, personal objects—items carried, used, and held—Lost Landscapes widens the frame. These images offer grounding and scale: the places where fire moved through land, homes, and neighborhoods. They provide context for the objects by showing the environments that shaped, and were altered by, the same events.

All of these landscape photographs were made by me, on site. Shown together with the charcoal works, they create a dialogue between the intimate and the expansive, the relic and the terrain—between what was carried away and what remains.
#BurnLine #LostLandscapes #WildfireAftermath #PhotographyAndFire #MemoryAndPlace
Burn Line featured in Forbes and J Press: On Fire Burn Line featured in Forbes and J

Press: On Fire, Memory, and an Evolving Process Forbes: California Wildfires Give Rise To New Artistic Process Forged By Flame By Leslie Katz A feature-length article about my project View PDF J Weekly: Wildfires, tides, landlines: A Jewish artists’ laboratory grapples with change An article that includes all the artists in the exhibition at the Magnes View PDF…...

https://arisalomon.com/news/burn-line-featured-in-forbes-and-j/
#sutrotower #sutrotowerSF #sutrotowerArt #sutrotower #sutrotowerSF 
#sutrotowerArt
Inspiring talk and exhibition by @alexcartagenamex Inspiring talk and exhibition by @alexcartagenamex - curated by @lopesshana 

It was resonating with many issues that I’ve been thinking about for a while in terms of photography that focuses more on concept than creating new images. 

He shared that he hadn’t taken a new photograph in six years and I appreciate that now as a badge of honor
Forbes recently profiled my Pyrotype work and the Forbes recently profiled my Pyrotype work and the ideas behind using fire as both subject and medium. The article dives into how these charred, black-on-black images emerge from a process rooted in California’s wildfire stories.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/lesliekatz/2025/11/20/california-wildfires-inspire-pyrotype-an-artistic-process-forged-by-flame/

Link in bio

Thank you to @laba.bay and  @themagnus for hosting the exhibition this weekend. Thank you @robinthewallace 

 #Pyrotype #BurnLineAri #PhotoSculpture #ExperimentalPhotography
My artists talk at the exhibition this weekend My artists talk at the exhibition this weekend
Burn Line Thank you to @laba.bay and @themagnus Burn Line

Thank you to @laba.bay and  @themagnus for hosting a wonderful exhibition. I was so glad to hare my work with this enthusiastic audience and to be part of the year long fellowship where we learned from each other and supported our new creative projects. Gratitude overflowing.

#Pyrotype #BurnLineAri #PhotoSculpture #ExperimentalPhotography #ConceptualPhotography #ArtAndMemory #AlternativeProcess #CNCArt #CaliforniaWildfires #ClimateChangeArt #JewishFuturism
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