photo_talks: What Moves You?
Samantha Box
Samantha Box is a Jamaican-born, Bronx-based photographer. She will discuss the thematic connections — and crucial shifts in process — between her two major bodies of work: Invisible, a multi-chapter documentary project and archive that holds the lives of queer, trans, and non-binary youth of color in New York City, and Caribbean Dreams, a studio-based project that describes Box’s personal Caribbean/diasporic experience through still-life and self-portraiture. This talk will illuminate the ways in which an artist’s practice shifts over time, morphing as the creator addresses specific themes and concepts through different methods of image-making.
Lesly Deschler-Canossi leads the conversation and the Q&A after the presentation.
Samantha Box is a Jamaican-born, Bronx-based photographer. In her studio-based practice, she uses self-portraiture, sound, and installation to articulate her personal diasporic/Caribbean experience. This work has been exhibited at the Houston Center of Photography (2019), and the Andrew Freedman House (2020). In Spring 2021, Box will join the Bronx Museum of the Arts’ AIM Fellowship program.
Her previous documentary work focused on New York City's community of LGBTQ youth of color, and was widely recognized, notably with a NYFA Fellowship (2010), and shown, most prominently, as part of the ICP Museum’s Perpetual Revolution exhibition (2017). This work is part of the permanent collections of the Open Society Foundation, EN FOCO, and Light Work.
Samantha holds a certificate in Photojournalism and Documentary Studies from the International Center of Photography (2006). She also holds an MFA in Advanced Photographic Studies from the International Center of Photographer/Bard College (2019).
Samantha teaches
self-portraiture and documentary photography
for StrudelmediaLive.
samanthabox.net
Lesly Deschler Canossi is a photographer, photography educator, and cultural producer. She holds an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, and is a faculty member at the International Center of Photography. She has taught at Columbia University, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Lamar Dodd School of Art, Cortona, Italy.
In 2016, she and Zoraida Lopez-Diago co-created Women Picturing Revolution — an organization dedicated to female photographers who have documented conflicts, crises, and revolutions in private realms and public spaces. WPR presented for Fast Forward: Women in Photography at the Tate Modern on the topic of their forthcoming book Representations of Black Motherhood and Photography, Leuven University Press: Spring, 2021.
Deschler Canossi recently created the panel, Urgent Pictures! Photographs of Unrest Reconsidered, Focus on the Story photography festival. Her ongoing personal photographic project Domestic Negotiations explores autonomy, partnership, and the role of the mother as artist.
Lesly teaches
photographing domestic life
for StrudelmediaLive.
