LESLY DESCHLER CANOSSI: Ongoing Domestic Negotiations in Brooklyn

Noa’s Shadow, Hands on Paper, Brooklyn, 2012

Photograph (c) Lesly Deschler Canossi

Mateo's Bath at Two Months in Kitchen Sink, Brooklyn, 2012

Photograph (c) Lesly Deschler Canossi 

Olive and Noa Touching, Brooklyn, 2012

Photograph (c) Lesly Deschler Canossi

"Domestic Negotiations is an ongoing project and the result of a personal desire to make work while navigating the demands of a new marriage, motherhood, creative and professional work. In creating the irreversible bonds of family, I understand a life of domesticity to be a negotiation. Now that my hands are deeply plunged into this experience, I live in a constant flow of needs met or missed, a conversation on practical demands, expectations, and fleeting moments that must not go unnoticed. At this stage, feelings are more intensified and there is no rest. It is my hope that this work conveys the emotional and physical tenderness of a family while revealing the raw and delicate nature of the relationships we try so desperately to preserve." – Lesly Deschler Canossi

I first met and was enchanted by Lesly Deschler Canossi's work at Ruben Natal-San Miguel and Rafael Fuchs first annual "15 Minutes of Fame" Portfolio Review in Bushwick last month. With an MFA in Photography and Digital Imaging from Maryland Institute College of Art, Lesly works in New York City as an artist, as well as an instructor at the International Center of Photography (ICP) and owner of Fiber Ink Studio, a printing and drum scanning studio producing museum quality pigment prints. View more of her on-going project here

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SUSAN KEISER: In Memory's Dream

from the series "In Memory's Dream"

 Photograph © Susan Keiser

from the series "In Memory's Dream"

 Photograph © Susan Keiser

from the series "In Memory's Dream"

 Photograph © Susan Keiser

"My parents weren’t much for taking pictures. The entire family archive fit into a small cardboard box—two barely started albums and a pile of photo envelopes from various drugstores. Growing up I’d spent hours studying and restudying those snapshots, looking for insights even in the badly blurred ones, hoping they could tell me what really happened. Part memory, mostly invention, the stories I wove became my history."
 

"The box sat unopened for years until a frozen pipe burst, flooding the basement of my mother’s empty house. While the ruined photos were irreplaceable, the history was my own, and the loss freed me to reimag(in)e my story on a larger scale, from a more universal point of view. The result is A River Made of Time and Memory, photographs that are not the record of actual events, but of emotional truths, shaped and colored by years of reflection. Fresh visions appear, images aggregate into chapters, and the river flows on. " – Susan Keiser (read more here)

SUSAN KEISER PHOTOGRAPHY