Tallulah Schwartz is a New York-born and -based photographer and video artist. She holds a BA from Wesleyan University in English theory and literary forms with a minor in film. She is a 2019 WIJSL Endowed Program Fund grant recipient, currently in post-production on a personal documentary exploring the limits of biological kinship and the nuances of the second-generation Jewish diasporic subject.
Tallulah’s practice, primarily comprised of still and moving image-making, engages with the humor that comes forth from visual documents. Her work plays with tropes of documentary and street photography to produce images that toe a visual space between fact and artifice. She is fascinated by how people perceive themselves, how she perceives them through the camera, and the ways this confluence manifests for the viewer.
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Originally a darkroom photographer, I have moved much of my image-making practice onto my smartphone camera, a transition that has enriched my creative process and output in unexpected ways. Stripped of manual exposure calculations, variability in camera quality, and visibility as a photographer, a new freedom and agility emerge—along with a new visual language and set of technical considerations. Function follows form in my mobile work, the pictures inextricable from—and fully aware of—the technological processes that produce them. Working in a widely accessible medium has made me aware of what compels me foremost in images and image-making: the content of a photo and the stakes in its representation for photographer, viewer, and subject alike.
CV, video and writing samples available upon request at tallulah.schwartz@gmail.com.
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Tallulah’s practice, primarily comprised of still and moving image-making, engages with the humor that comes forth from visual documents. Her work plays with tropes of documentary and street photography to produce images that toe a visual space between fact and artifice. She is fascinated by how people perceive themselves, how she perceives them through the camera, and the ways this confluence manifests for the viewer.
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Originally a darkroom photographer, I have moved much of my image-making practice onto my smartphone camera, a transition that has enriched my creative process and output in unexpected ways. Stripped of manual exposure calculations, variability in camera quality, and visibility as a photographer, a new freedom and agility emerge—along with a new visual language and set of technical considerations. Function follows form in my mobile work, the pictures inextricable from—and fully aware of—the technological processes that produce them. Working in a widely accessible medium has made me aware of what compels me foremost in images and image-making: the content of a photo and the stakes in its representation for photographer, viewer, and subject alike.
CV, video and writing samples available upon request at tallulah.schwartz@gmail.com.
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