I am thrilled that two of my photographs are in fossils of light + time, a limited edition book, curated and exquisitely designed by Elizabeth Avedon — in collaboration with, and published by, the Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography. The photograph above, Man Through Van, opens the book.
The book’s title is from a beautiful and seductive quote by Daido Moriyama, “If you were to ask me to define a photograph in a few words, I would say it is “a fossil of light and time.”
The Limited Edition of 250 has Sold Out. Many thanks to DCCP’s Kyohei Abe and Kottie Gaydos for the superb printing. A complete list of the artists and more information is available here.
I am excited Adorama chose to feature my work on their widely read series about photographers and titled it: Meet A Pro: Susan May Tell, Poet with a Camera. The wide-ranging interview offered a special opportunity to discuss the similarities between poetry (especially that of William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens and Stanley Kunitz) and my photography. That relationship was highlighted during my recent residency at The MacDowell Colony when my photographs inspired poets to write about them. That’s probably the highest form of praise there is.
Click here to read the interview and see more photographs.
I was honored that a selection of my photographs taken in the Middle-East (Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel and Kuwait) were featured in I/Thou, an ambitious group exhibition at New York University’s Stovall Gallery. Curated by Pamela Jean Tinnen, NYU’s Curator and Exhibition Coordinator of Kimmel Galleries, the exhibition reflected on concurrent themes in social justice. I/Thou ran from September 9th to October 25th and a highlight was an Evening with the Artists and Curator on October 9th.
I feel incredibly fortunate to have spent the month of February in residence at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. My world in New York City is very photo-centric. In a poem of William Carlos Williams he wrote that he “discovered that most of the beauties of travel are due to the strange hours we keep to see them.” After being at the VCCA, I can say that many of the best parts of an artist residency are due to the talented artists of various disciplines we meet there.
