Anastasia Samoylova was born in Moscow and now lives in Miami. Her work spaces between photography, studio practice and installation. Samoylova has exhibited internationally, including Aperture Foundation in New York, Griffin Museum of Photography in Boston, and in photography festivals in Belgium, Brazil, France, Netherlands, Israel, China and South Korea. Her work is in the collections at the Museum of Contemporary Photography of Chicago, Stanford University, Yale University, and Art Slant Collection Paris.
Her approach shows the importance of thinking in images when looking at things; she finds that there’s something about actually looking through the camera viewfinder and focusing on another image that is deeply pleasurable in an intellectual sense.
About ‘FloodZone’ – words by ‘Anastasia Samoylova’:
FloodZone is Anastasia Samoylova’s photographic account of life on the climatic knife-edge of the southern United States. Sea levels are rising and hurricanes are threatening. However, this is not a visualization of a disaster or a catastrophe. These beautifully subtle and often unsettling images capture the mood of waiting, of knowing that the climate is changing, while living with it.
