Sarah Smith - Challenger (archival pigment inkjet print, edition of 50, 8" x 10", 2018)
My work is grounded in photography’s inherent relationship with nostalgia and the ways in which a photograph can ask us to look backwards while remaining grounded in the present. Stemming from autobiographical experiences, my work explores expectations of and attachment to personal photographic images through a slow and considered documentation of personal objects, interior spaces, and the landscape. In their accumulation, a larger narrative that blends truth, poetry, and abstraction hums beneath the surface. I’m interested in how the space within a photograph becomes a stage in which the past, present, and future become the same moment.
My work is grounded in photography’s inherent relationship with nostalgia and the ways in which a photograph can ask us to look backwards while remaining grounded in the present. Stemming from autobiographical experiences, my work explores expectations of and attachment to personal photographic images through a slow and considered documentation of personal objects, interior spaces, and the landscape. In their accumulation, a larger narrative that blends truth, poetry, and abstraction hums beneath the surface. I’m interested in how the space within a photograph becomes a stage in which the past, present, and future become the same moment.
My work is grounded in photography’s inherent relationship with nostalgia and the ways in which a photograph can ask us to look backwards while remaining grounded in the present. Stemming from autobiographical experiences, my work explores expectations of and attachment to personal photographic images through a slow and considered documentation of personal objects, interior spaces, and the landscape. In their accumulation, a larger narrative that blends truth, poetry, and abstraction hums beneath the surface. I’m interested in how the space within a photograph becomes a stage in which the past, present, and future become the same moment.