Susan Worsham is a Richmond-based photographer who has used her recent photography as a means of processing the immense familial loss she has suffered. After finding a case of microscope samples she again felt compelled to photograph as a way of preserving life in the way these antique slides did. Her landscapes are often barren collections of objects or places where there is an immense feeling of absence. The picture I chose may conventionally be a still life but feels more like a record of land. Many of the other photos she creates have this same type of absence, or a suggestion that a person was once there.
Many of her portraits, especially the ones of her childhood friend Margaret, capture this same passage of time. She makes beautiful pictures that both aesthetically and conceptually drive the work to new places. All her photos do have this deep undertone of sadness, showing a type of weariness that I find particularly compelling. Her body of work is not very vast, but the images she does have within it create beautiful portraits and landscapes of places that she has found solace or heartache in.
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