Sarah Small

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VIDEO: Sarah Small talks about the joy of creating unusual juxtapositions.

VIDEO: Sarah Small talks about the joy of creating unusual juxtapositions.

VIDEO: Sarah Small talks about the joy of creating unusual juxtapositions.

Sarah Small was born in Washington DC into a family of musicians. This musical background has influenced her approach to photography with its ideas of improvisation, dissonance and harmony.

"The Delirium Constructions" from which much of Sarah's work is taken is an ongoing project exploring disassociated themes and characters brought together into the same space. As Sarah says on her website, "I bring models into improbable, close interactions to examine the social and graphic contrasts of youth and experience; hysteria and discipline; tragedy and hilarity and sexuality and desexualization."

Although staged, Sarah's work is rarely preconceived and having found the subjects she wants to work with, the photographs are created out of a process of improvisation and play. Conceptual rather than strictly documentary, Sarah uses composition to create order within the spontaneity of the improvised session.

Sarah studied at Rhode Island School of Design where she was awarded the RISD merit Scholarship. While still a student she was the recipient of the Corcoran Gallery Gold Key Award.

Since graduating Sarah has won several awards including Surface Magazine's Avant Guardian; Art and Commerce's Emerging Photographer and in 2007 she was announced as one of the USA winners in the "Magenta Foundation Flash Forward - Emerging Photographers".

In 2010 her major work "Delirium Constructions" is to be exhibited at the Green Building Gallery, Louisville; The Tribeca Y Gallery, New York and at the Salon Ciel, New York, having been previously shown at the Waldermar A Schmidt Gallery, Waverly in 2008.

Outside of America Sarah's photography has been exhibited at the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney; the VICE Photobook Exhibition, Nantes; Caprice Horn Gallery, Berlin, and the Bova Image Festival in Italy.

Sarah currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York and when she is not working she composes music and performs with the Black Sea Hotel, her Balkan a Cappella quartet.

Sarah Small's print from the 1000 Words collection

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