Zebras Join the Permanent

Collection

“ I had this idea of the light and shadow of a forest interacting with the zebras ' stripes. If I had known how much work the image was going to be, I never would have done it.”

— Simen Johan, photograph magazine, July 2016

Affectionately called“ the zebras” by visitors who are drawn to the 13-foot wide photograph now on view in the Mead Witter Lobby, Untitled # 182, from the series Until the Kingdom Comes by Simen Johan joins the Chazen’ s growing collection of contemporary digital photography.

Like photographer Markus Brunetti whose FACADES exhibition was on view at the Chazen September 2 – December 31, 2016, Johan works with hundreds of photographs to