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| EN FOCO | Photographers | |
 © Susana Raab, Augustina, La Costa Verde, Lima, Peru, Cholita series.  © Susana Raab, Pose, Playa Agua Dulce, Lima, Peru, Cholita series.  © Susana Raab, Sasparilla Stand, Lima, Peru, Cholita series. |
Susana Raab Born: 1968, Lima, Peru Resides: Washington, DC Heritage: Peruvian-American Selected Exhibitions: En Foco at Skylight Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2011 Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC 2011 Pingyao Photofestival, Pingyao, China, 2010 American Vernacular, Irvine Contemporary, Washington, DC, 2010 Kunstlicht Gallery, Shanghai, China 2009 Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 2009 Look3 Festival of Photography, Charlottesville, VA 2009 Education: MA/Visual Communications, 2010, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio BA/English, 1990, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia Awards: En Foco's New Works Photography Awards #14 Fellowship, 2010-11 Honorable Mention, Project Competition Center, Santa Fe, NM 2010 Photo District News Annual, Finalist, New York, NY 2010 Artist Fellowship, DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities/NEA, Washington, DC 2009 Chosen, American Photography 24, New York, NY 2009 Grand Prix, Fotofestival, Finalist, Lodz, Poland 2009 Publications: Mary Louise Shumaker, “Photographer’s varied show captures moments of truth across America,” The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, August 2, 2009 "Junk Food Nation,” Photo District News, March, 2009 “Showcase: More than a Slice,” The New York Times Lens Blog, July 15, 2009 "As a photographer my work is influenced by cultural anthropology. I am interested in how people form their identities in our contemporary times, whether through the influence of advertising, race, environment or society. Driven by my own personal dislocation, the byproduct of a peripatetic upbringing and familial estrangement, I am empathetic to people whose sense of self is diminished by outside forces beyond their control or making. In this project, Cholita, I seek to portray a group of people whose humanity is often denied them by more powerful forces in society, while also avoiding an overly romantic depiction. I feel that you honor a person and culture by portraying them as they are: beautiful, sad, lost, happy, ridiculous, silly, sometimes unsavory, because people are complex and imperfect but still worthy of generosity and love." Website: |
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