Susan Worsham
Skirting the line between fantasy, autobiography and documentary, the photographic work of Susan Worsham chronicles her experiences and relationships growing up in the American south. Richly cinematic, her work evokes a quiet, Sothern Gothic style, focusing in on select moments of love, loss, nature and discovery. After losing both her brother and father before the age of eighteen, and her mother to a heart attack in 2004, Worsham was inspired to re-create and photograph the literal and psychological landscape of her childhood. Says the artist of this inspiration, “shortly after my mother passed I came across a set of antique veterinary slides. They were some of the most interesting things that I had ever seen. They seemed to hold beauty and death at the same time. I framed ninety of them in a long wooden frame resembling the shape of the slide itself. It was the first piece of art that I made after my mother died.”
Susan Worsham took her first photography class while studying graphic design in college. In 2009 she was nominated for the Santa Fe Prize For Photography, and her book Some Fox Trails In Virginia won first runner up in the fine art category of …
Skirting the line between fantasy, autobiography and documentary, the photographic work of Susan Worsham chronicles her experiences and relationships growing up in the American south. Richly cinematic, her work evokes a quiet, Sothern Gothic style, focusing in on select moments of love, loss, nature and discovery. After losing both her brother and father before the age of eighteen, and her mother to a heart attack in 2004, Worsham was inspired to re-create and photograph the literal and psychological landscape of her childhood. Says the artist of this inspiration, “shortly after my mother passed I came across a set of antique veterinary slides. They were some of the most interesting things that I had ever seen. They seemed to hold beauty and death at the same time. I framed ninety of them in a long wooden frame resembling the shape of the slide itself. It was the first piece of art that I made after my mother died.”
Susan Worsham took her first photography class while studying graphic design in college. In 2009 she was nominated for the Santa Fe Prize For Photography, and her book Some Fox Trails In Virginia won first runner up in the fine art category of the Blurb Photography Book Now International Competition. In 2010 Worsham was awarded the first TMC / Kodak Film Grant, and was an Artist-in-Residence at Light Work. Her work is held in private collections, and has been exhibited at the Corcoran Museum during FotoWeek DC, The Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, and the Danville Museum, Virginia.
Museum of Modern Art,New York
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, Massachusetts
Centre Pompidou and Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris
Musée de l'Élysée, Lausanne Switzerland,
Center for Creative Photography, Arizona
Finnish Museum of Photography
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan
among many others.
