Maureen Beitler

Photographer
   
The Osorio Family Circus
Location: New York City and the Hudson Valley
Nationality: USA
Biography: Maureen Beitler is a photographer and nurse living and working in NYC and the Hudson Valley. Her work has been featured regularly in The Sun Magazine . She was awarded an Artist Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 2004. Images... MORE
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The Osorio Family Circus
Copyright Maureen Beitler 2024
Updated May 2020
Location Mexico
Topics #Mexico #Circus #Family, Animals, Beauty, Documentary, Latin America, Photography, Portraiture
Photography is my way of looking beyond the surface of things to something deeper and more personal. The circus is paradoxically the perfect vehicle for this exploration because we know the magic, masks, and theater are all an illusion. And yet we want to suspend disbelief and be carried away by the spectacle we see. I wanted to pull back the sparkly red curtain and meet this family of characters where their public and private lives meet. The Osorio family has been living nomadically and working together since 1940. I met them 5 years ago and have photographed them whenever I am in Mexico and could find them. I photograph people and the environments in which they live because I am curious to see what is behind their outward gaze and visage, to try and glimpse in their faces where they have been and where they hope to go. Their hopes and dreams are not always communicated literally but if I am lucky I get a glimmer of the human story lived out behind the curtain.
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