An experimental photographer, Susannah makes pictures that reveal the essential interconnectedness of the systems in our universe, from the smallest leaf to the cosmos itself. She pursues repeating patterns, following the echoes of the organic within the inorganic, and she sees shadow within form and form within shadow. She steps quietly in the footsteps of Henry Fox Talbot and other early pioneers of photographic image making, looking for clues that connect a photographer with the essence of the medium and the motivation that lies deep within the impulse to photograph. Sensitive to both the language of photography and visual signifiers within her immediate surroundings, her work exists in the midst of a dynamic and imaginative exchange with our in/visible cosmos.
Susannah’s studio art courses focus on the history of the medium, the application of alternative/hybrid processes and the play between syntactical relationships in word/image narrations and constructions of space in handmade artist’s books and installations. Her interdisciplinary courses—Topologies, Embodied Camera and Photography: Degree Zero—include modern and contemporary literary and philosophical discourse when examining how the media of art and the body itself perform functions in reconciling two disparate realities original to man: the forces of our unconscious mechanical apparatus and our conscious experience of shaping formless matter,in moment to moment time-space relationships, delineating and preserving visible representations and patterns of our experiences authentically.
Susannah is represented by Photo-Eye Santa Fe, New Mexico, Paragon-Media Oakland, California and Donna Seager in San Rafael, California. Her work resides in numerous public and private collections.
Adjunct Professor
San Francisco Art Institute (2002-present)
University of California, Berkeley (2002-2005)
California College of the Arts (2008-2009)
BA Mills College
MA University of California, Berkeley
MFA San Francisco Art Institute