SABRINA SAMUEL PHOTOGRAPHY
When the Earth Dreams
If the Earth could tell us what she dreamed last night, what would she say, what would her dreams look like, and would we be included in her dreams?
This series of photos explores the idea of the Earth as a Dreamer. Through slow shutter speed, intentional camera movement, and multi-exposure these photos capture various landscapes in a dream-like manner, in hopes that the viewer feels connected to the Earth as she dreams.
New York with Friends
These New York images were made with a combination of intentional camera moment and multi exposure blended in camera.
I keep gravitating to this type of abstract photography because it combines the mastery of the technical side of photography with playful chance, which for me is like working in collaboration with the serendipitous nature of the universe.
Through a Glass Darkly
THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY is an exploration of my inner identity after receiving a life altering medical diagnosis. This series began with the notion, I have a limited amount of time in this physical form and I am more than my name, what I do, who I’m married to, or even who I think I am. The question I wanted to explore more fully was “who am I at the core of my being or spirit?” Photography was the medium I used to capture this inner journey.
While grappling with the fleeting nature of my physical existence I often felt like a ghost - a whisper of a human, where the lines between my physical form and spirit became blurred. It was this blurring I wanted to express in camera.
Although there are interior photos in this series, I connected more deeply to the stillness within myself while in wild solitary places. While creating these photographs, I often felt an inner shift of knowing. I not only felt deeply connected to the environment that I was in, but I also felt deeply connected to the source of life. As I became more open to this source of life the fear of losing my physical form began to fade. During this journey the spirit world became as real to me as the physical world I was standing in.