Beth galton professional#

A profound sadness combined with these surprising discoveries led to my creating this body of work exploring feelings, memories and even buried memories – all brought to the surface through these revelations.

We discovered her journals, copious letters written to family members and never sent, and everyday objects and photographs depicting many family scenes that I have no memory of. After my sister and I inherited my mother’s home we were startled to find the extent to which she had been hoarding. In 2017, my mother and father- who had not lived together for 50 years by that time-died within three days of each other. My mother’s relationship with her mother was fraught with difficulties and these same dynamics were passed onto me. I’ve spent many years contending with these issues by first becoming overly involved in my mother’s life and then ultimately removing myself. So much of who we are is passed from generation to generation-our genes, our behaviors-molded by our parents and grandparents. Galton has received many awards, most recently the Tokyo International Foto Awards, 12th Julia Margaret Camera awards, IPA Awards, Graphis, Communication Arts and the PDN Taste Awards. Most recently her work was seen at Montpellier Contemporian, Montpellier France, Wave Hill, The Center for Fine Art Photography in Colorado, the Center for Photographic Art in California, Beth Urdang Gallery in Boston and was part of ‘The Fence’, a traveling outdoor exhibition shown in seven cities across the country. and Europe and she was previously represented by Marlborough Gallery in NYC. Galton’s artwork has been exhibited in shows throughout the U.S. Galton often uses natural light to capture these compositions by using a large format camera and digital back. In her photographs, these assemblages and portraits connect the viewer to the ecological cycles of the natural world, including their own aging and mortality. Galton collects objects, items from her past and botanicals which she often manipulates and dries to constructs still lifes. Her personal practice brings these elements of her history together, using them to explore her world through the nature of time and organic forms.

Beth galton professional#

Today, we are looking at the series Memory of Absence by Beth Galton.īeth Galton is a photo-based artist, with an educational background in the natural sciences and 30 years of experience as a professional photographer in the editorial and commercial world. We will be accepting new projects for review from April 4th-10th, 2021. Projects featured this week were selected from our call-for-submissions.