With my artistic practice, I explore themes of home, family, community, identity, aging, love, and relationships. Working mostly in color I meet my subjects in the environment where they are most comfortable, often in the home, to tell their stories with authenticity and compassion. At times, I use a lighter touch, occasionally injecting humor, to express intimate feelings about the person being photographed, especially if it’s someone close to me. I am influenced by literary fiction in terms of character development and place description, and I endeavor to create images that touch on human emotions that are recognizable and familiar.
I use two cameras: a Canon DSLR with mainly a 35mm lens, and a Leica Q.
Photo: © 2019 Sylvia Stagg-Giuliano
Awards and Honors
2023 Worldwide Photography Gala Awards,19th Pollux Honorable Mention, Self Portrait series
2021 Critical Mass Top 50, "Widowed"
2021 Worldwide Photography Gala Awards 16th JMCA Honorable Mention, Self Portrait Series
2020 PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, Honorable Mention
2017 Critical Mass Top 50, "Second Time Around"
2017 Baxter Street at CCNY Annual Juried Competition, Honorable Mention
2016 PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, Honourable Mention
2016: Center for Fine Art Photography, Ft. Collins, Colorado: "Portfolio Showcase 9"
I use two cameras: a Canon DSLR with mainly a 35mm lens, and a Leica Q.
Photo: © 2019 Sylvia Stagg-Giuliano
Awards and Honors
2023 Worldwide Photography Gala Awards,19th Pollux Honorable Mention, Self Portrait series
2021 Critical Mass Top 50, "Widowed"
2021 Worldwide Photography Gala Awards 16th JMCA Honorable Mention, Self Portrait Series
2020 PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, Honorable Mention
2017 Critical Mass Top 50, "Second Time Around"
2017 Baxter Street at CCNY Annual Juried Competition, Honorable Mention
2016 PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, Honourable Mention
2016: Center for Fine Art Photography, Ft. Collins, Colorado: "Portfolio Showcase 9"
- Solo Exhibitions:
- April/May 2021: Space Place Gallery, Nizhgy Tagil, Ural, Russia: Building 1
- October 2019: Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA: Widow/er
- September 2016: Camerawork Gallery, Scranton, Pennsylvania: Building 1
- Juried group exhibitions:
- 2023 Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA, 2023 Members' Online Juried Exhibition
- 2023 The Luupe, Looking At Ourselves: Self-Portraits by Women Online Exhibition
- 2023 The Luupe, Visions of Love Online Exhibition
- 2022 Treat Gallery, New York, Summer Lovin' exhibition
- 2022 Los Angeles Center of Photography Members Juried Show
- 2022 Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA, 2022 Members' Juried Exhibition
- 2022 Griffin Museum at Lafayette City Center, Boston, MA, Color Theory
- 2021 Foley Gallery, New York, NY, "To Loved, To Be Loved", Sherri Littlefield, Curator
- 2021 Candela Books + Gallery, Richmond, VA, "Photography is Dead...Long Live Photography!"
- 2020 Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, 26th Annual Juried Members' Exhibition
- 2020 Soho Photo Gallery, New York, NY, 2020 National Competition Exhibition
- 2020 A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas, "Domicile" Exhibition
- 2020 One Twelve Publishing, Portland, Oregon, "Internal Dialogue" Exhibition
- 2020 Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, Colorado, "Portraits 2020" Exhibition
- 2020 A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas, "Portraits" Exhibition
- 2020 The Plaxall Gallery, a selection of 8 photos, Life Interrupted Exhibition, curated by Orestes Gonzalez, Long Island City, NY
- 2020 Howland Cultural Center, a selection of 16 photos, The Sympathetic Eye Exhibition, Curated by Susan Keiser, Beacon, New York
- 2019 apexart - The Tribeca Show, New York, NY
- 2019 Humble Arts Foundation - 100% Fun
- 2019 Griffin Museum, In Your Mother Tongue: A Word and Image Dialogue - Lafayette City Center Passageway, Boston
- 2019 Fraction Magazine 11th Anniversary Issue
- 2018 PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT, Juried Exhibition -Environmental Portraits
- 2018 Griffin Museum of Photography - Quién? Qué? Dónde?, Lafayette City Center, Boston, MA
- 2018 Soho Photo Gallery, NYC, National Competition
- 2018 Edition ONE Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
- 2018 American Splendour, Ilon Art Gallery, NYC
- 2018 Small Works/Baruch, NYC Juried Exhibition
- 2017 Soho Photo Gallery, NYC, National Competition
- 2017 Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson, NY, Third Annual Group Show
- 2017 Baxter Street at CCNY, NYC, Annual Juried Competition and Exhibition
- 2016: PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary: "Portraiture", Honorable Mention
- 2016: Center for Fine Art Photography, Ft. Collins, Colorado: "Portfolio Showcase 9"
- 2016: Station Independent Projects, NYC, NY: "WE: AMEricans"
- 2015: Ripe Art Gallery, Huntington, LI: "The Rights of Summer"
- 2014: Ripe Art Gallery, Huntington, LI: "What is a Portrait?"
- 2014: Featureshoot.com "What are you Thankful For?"
- Features and articles about my work:
- Strange Fire Collective
- Widow/er: Boston Globe
- Widow/er: Lenscratch
- Building 1: Float Magazine
- Building 1: Slate.com Behold blog
- Building 1: TribecaCitizen
- Second Time Around: Lenscratch
- Online magazine article - F-Stop Magazine
- The American Scholar - Spring 2018 issue
- Podcast interviews:
- 2021 At Lunch with Julie Salamon: Rebecca Naomi Jones and Susan Rosenberg Jones
- 2018 Hit the Streets 115 with Valerie Jardin
- 2017 Keep The Channel Open with Mike Sakasagawa Episode 43
- 2016 Hit The Streets 10 with Valerie Jardin
- 2015 The Candid Frame with Ibarionex Perello Episode 291
- TWIP/Street Focus, Valerie Jardin on episode no.10
- TWIP/The Candid Frame, episode no. 292
- Online interview F-Stop Magazine
- Speaking Engagements/Artist Talks:
2020 i3 Digital Photography Masters Lecture Series, January 14, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2019 Artist Talk, Widow/er opening, October 24, The Griffin Museum, Winchester, MA