Spring 2006 Hot Shot Ian Baguskas will be showing work from his series, Sansaram, (Mountain People) at the Camera Club of New York as part of the exhibition In Search of the Miraculous. Ian was a runner-up for the Aperture Foundation Portfolio Prize in 2007 for this body of work. The series

depict[s] the intersection of recreation and spiritual communion with nature... [and] combines landscape views with documentary portraits of native visitors to the Sobaek mountains, encountered on hiking trails. The popularity of this activity can be attributed to the indigenous religion, which is centered on the worship of nature and mountain spirits, and has come to be fused with Buddhism.

The opening is tomorrow, Saturday, February 21st, from 5-8 p.m. at the Camera Club of New York.

Ian's NYC solo debut was the exhibition Sweetwater, at Jen Bekman Gallery, in March of 2008.
You can also find his work, Kamping Kabins, on 20x200.