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.
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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).
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