Evie Metz was born and raised in South Florida. She left to attend college in Baltimore, Maryland, where she currently lives. Evie is a photographer whose work is influenced by themes of human mortality. Her approach to image making is intuitive and becomes an act of seeing and recording, almost in a diaristic way.
Exploring moments of life with a sensitivity for seeing, the difference between ordinary and extraordinary disappears. She photographs portraits of an already existing poetry, often overlooked.
About ‘Seeking Stephanie, Chapter 1: Seeing and being’:
My birth name is Stephanie and the title derives from a decision I made before attending college. In anticipation of starting over, relocating to a city opposite of the small Florida town where I grew up, and leaving my nest behind I felt motivated and more comfortable behind the mask of a moniker. Upon arriving in Baltimore, I introduced myself as “Evie”. Originally I identified under this name as an artist name.
However, the role of artist and self has become so intertwined that I no longer feel the differentiation. This merging of duality, personality, and interior vs exterior is all the driving motivations in this photographic series that marks the end of a four year long period of self-discovery. Utilizing the camera as tool to achieve a higher understanding of myself, the instinct to make pictures has become as subconscious as dreaming does while asleep. I define the resulting body of photographs as a diaristic poem of visuals, classified into three segments or sequential chapters:
Chapter 1. Seeing and Being
This vignette comprises the more preliminary stages of developing a sensitivity of seeing and most importantly responding. Seeing and being is motivated by the balance between these two acts of which throughout the process became synonymous.
