Presentation

Exeko represents the American photographer and filmaker Wayne Schoenfeld in Canada and selected markets in the United States. Exeko is in charge of the development of his activities:

• Fine Art photography
• Humanitarian photo documentary
• Social development (education, health, etc…) through his involvement in many organizations both locally and internationally

This partnership and collaboration endows Exeko with the following tasks:

• Project development consulting
• Creative consulting
• Photographic production/direction
• Organization of exhibitions; each benefiting a charity project
• Production and distribution of books and documentaries
• Development of humanitarian projects (example: see section Rotaplast Social Circus project)
• Public relations coordination

For more details concerning Wayne Schoenfeld, see his biography and a few of his photographic works below. You can also visit his website: www.wayneschoenfeld.com

Biography

Los Angeles photographer, Wayne Schoenfeld is best known for his Fine Art photography and his coverage of global humanitarian projects, as well as photographs that are living tableaux expressing powerful and compassionate social commentary.
Schoenfeld's fine art photography is found in art galleries, museums and private collections throughout North America, Asia and Europe including the permanent collections of the National Museum of Contemporary Art -Seoul, the Santa Barbara County Arts Commission - USA, Cirque du Soleil - Montreal and Complesso del Vittoriano - Rome. His work has appeared in a number of publications including Harpers Bazaar, American Photo, Design and Los Angeles Daily. His distinctive artistic approach involves an elaborate creative process, closer in essence to cinema than photography.

[...]Wayne Schoenfeld takes pictures rather than photographs. His carefully orchestrated images are like classic paintings[...]
International Herald Tribune, The New York Times

Seven monograph books of Schoenfeld's tableau vivant photographs and humanitarian projects photographs have been published: Brittle Glory: The Face of Change, a collection of intimate street portraits taken in the Cuban countryside and the Kurdish territories of South Eastern Turkey, Surface Tension, a collection of portraits and impressions of the female form (Challenging...photos that treat the body simultaneously as sentient organism and as sculpture-voluptuously charged says Peter Frank, Art Critic, L.A. Weekly),Through the Eyes of Man erotic, revisionist, operatic interpretations of biblical lore and both English and Korean language editions of There Are No Answers, If the Questions Aren't Asked including "The Rape of the Sabine Women", Almost Perfect (Most Outstanding Book of 2004 by Independent Publisher Book Award), Mission To India and Through This World But Once.

Not only a photographer but also movie maker, Wayne Schoenfeld’s first feature documentary was The Memory Box movie. The Memory Box movie is based on a series of his Ethiopia documentary photographs. These photographs capture the drama of the struggling African nation and have been exhibited in the USA and Canada. They were also subject of several books. The Memory Box movie earned its first Golden Wreath as an official entry at the Boston International Film Festival in 2009.

Migrant FilmWorkers in association with Great Circle Books have produced a film, Evolution Of An Artist, retracing the highlights of Wayne Schoenfeld’s career (double-click to view full size):

Other realizations

Trained as a psychologist, in 1973, Schoenfeld was the co-founder and Director of the Los Angeles Guidance and Counseling Service, by 1978 the tax-exempt non-profit LAGCS was one of the largest providers of outpatient mental health services in the state of California.

1979-1995 - CEO and Chairman of Air L.A., the first airline in the United States to fly under an international code sharing partnership. In 1994 the airline expanded significantly after a successful NASDAQ public offering.

1996-2002 - CEO and Chairman of Real Image Digital, a motion picture technology partnership with the Sarnoff Research Center. In 2002 RID was sold to Technicolor in a landmark digital cinema acquisition.

2003-Current - Chairman of the Board of Directors, Great Circle Books. GCB was organized to publish works of social and humanitarian consequence. The funds raised through the sale of books are designated to support a number of charities and humanitarian projects.

Schoenfeld is a successful businessman, an award winning photographer and a publisher. He makes meaningful contributions to humanitarian work around the world, has published two books documenting the work of Rotaplast International, including the Most Outstanding Book of 2003 by the Independent Publisher's Association, Almost Perfect. Two of his projects, Humanitarian Therapeutic Clowns and Humanitarian Tourism, have been produced with the collaboration of Exeko.  His work is well known in galleries and museums around the world where the proceeds from his art is donated to children's projects and humanitarian efforts.

Schoenfeld continues to document the work of great charitable and volunteer efforts around the world with his photographs and motion pictures. His remarkable documentary film The Memory Box, directed in collaboration with Stephen Auerbach, was produced in collaboration with Exeko and distributed by Locomotion.
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