NYAB Event - Stephanie Lyn Slate "Souvenirs and The Inevitable"

Stephanie Lyn Slate "Souvenirs and The Inevitable"

Soho Photo Gallery

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Stephanie Lyn Slate is exhibiting two bodies of work; one is entitled Souvenirs and the other is The Inevitable. She explains, "Souvenirs, my newest series, serves as a form of therapy to help me understand the beauty in boredom. I use a camera to pry into my closest relationships and most personal thoughts, and shoot the different dynamics between my husband, our family dogs, and myself. The goal is to better understand what is important in our relationships, which oftentimes is the absolute beauty in the simple and boring; a dog sitting in beautiful light on a couch, a walk in the woods, the elegance of nudity, or even napping. I printed it in platinum/palladium to slow me down and give me time to form a relationship with the image."

In The Inevitable, Slate explores the delicate boundaries between the repulsive and beautiful, life and death. She says, "My platinum images in this series portray withered carcasses or involve self portraits taken in decomposing environments. In each image, the cycle of nature is depicted; that which is born eventually turns back into earth. A tranquil figure will eventually turn to bone and dust."