191 - Anastasia Samoylova
© Anastasia Samoylova
Anastasia Samoylova (b. 1984, USSR) is an American artist who moves between observational photography and studio practice. Her work explores notions of environmentalism, consumerism and the picturesque.
Recent exhibitions include Eastman Museum; Chrysler Museum of Art; The Photographer's Gallery; Kunst Haus Wien; HistoryMiami Museum; and Museum of Fine Arts, Le Locle.
In 2022 Anastasia was shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize. Her work is in the collections at the Perez Art Museum Miami and Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago, among others.
Published monographs include Floridas (Steidl, 2022) and FloodZone (Steidl, 2019), with her latest work, Image Cities, forthcoming as a book and exhibition in 2023.
On episode 191, Anastasia discusses, among other things:
Recent hurricane
Forthcoming book and exhibition project, Image Cities
Her abiding interest in collage
Adding vs. reducing - abstracting the world
Florida and her FloodZone book
Her perspective on the climate emergency: alarmist but not defeatist
Why she ended up living in Miami
How she came to start making pictures
The distinctive Florida colour palette
The Floridas book
Climate anxiety - and other types
Having a strong work ethic
Referenced:
“The key impulse here is the sense of gratitude for being able to do what I’ve always known I wanted to do, and feeling zero entitlement to this. It’s an immense privilege to be in this line of work.”
This episode of the podcast is sponsored by the Charcoal Editions - the newest project of Charcoal Book Club.
A curated, online gallery selling open edition silver gelatin prints.
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