In an interview of contemporary photographer Christy Lee Rogers by the Colnaghi Foundation, a non-profit London organization with the purpose of promoting Old Masters, art historian Isabelle Kent compares Rogers’ works to Ruben.
Kent, who lectures at the Victoria and Albert Museum and was a Curatorial Assistant at the Wallace Collection, said:
“[Rogers] is best known for her pioneering use of water and pools in her photography… [Rogers’] art plays with themes of strength and vulnerability, loss and beauty… creating ethereal and otherworldly images full of color and billowing fabrics. They have often been compared to Baroque paintings, in particular the likes of Caravaggio and I certainly think her multi-figure works, with all of their movement, really remind me of Rubens.”
In the interview Rogers, who won first prize in the Sony World Open Photographer of the Year Award and was recently commissioned by Apple, said, “There is a message in my work – it is connected to that Baroque feeling about something greater than ourselves, a drama and passion and motion.”
Listen to the interview here:
