Susan Seubert

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Susan Seubert
Born1970
Indianapolis, Indiana
EducationB.F.A., Pacific Northwest College of Art
Known forFine-art photography, photojournalism, editorial photography, National Geographic Travel Magazine
Website www.seubertfineart.com

Susan Seubert (born 1970) is an American fine art and editorial photographer based in Portland, Oregon and Maui, Hawaii. [1] She has exhibited internationally, photographing subjects from Canada to Thailand. [2]

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Early life and education

Seubert was born in 1970 in Indianapolis, Indiana, [3] the daughter of a nuclear physicist and a Russian scholar and attorney. [4]

Seubert earned a B.F.A. at Pacific Northwest College of Art in 1992. [4] [5]

Career

...photography is a form of visual communication — sometimes it's didactic and sometimes it's more conceptual. It's like having a toolbox — a hammer is good for one thing and a screwdriver another… an ambrotype is good for a certain kind of visual communication whereas a digital file is good for another.

Susan Seubert [1]

Seubert's first assignment for Newsweek was related to the 1994 Tonya Harding story. [1] Since that time, according to Ifanie Bell, "The Portland-based photographer still makes her living taking pictures, but she has turned her lenses toward capturing stunning shots of landscapes, life and leisure." [6]

In 2011 the Oregon Arts Commission said, "Seubert’s photography has been exhibited throughout the United States and abroad, including the 2005 Northwest Biennial, Tacoma Art Museum; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2004; and the Portland Art Museum’s 1999 and 2001 Oregon Biennial. In 2001, Seubert was a finalist for the prestigious Betty Bowen Award at the Seattle Art Museum." [7]

Critical reception

National Geographic Travel Expeditions said Seubert's photography represents "a variety of subjects and... a sense of place through her wide-ranging imagery. Susan's in-depth knowledge of digital technologies and her multimedia skills keep her at the cutting edge of visual storytelling." [2]

Ken Johnson of the New York Times wrote, "Elegant emblematic photographs by Susan Seubert symbolizing various phobias address danger only from an indirect, dryly philosophical distance." [8]

Bob Hicks of Oregon Arts Watch wrote of her exhibit "Not a Day Goes By",

Seubert’s exhibit on a subject most people don’t like to think about includes two series... depicting various methods of taking one’s own life. They are passionate and controlled and free of irony. The larger images in particular are unsettling and revealing. These ghostly images of faces misshapen by clinging bags of clear plastic are confrontational, and yet they’re not. The photographs are beautiful, simple, gorgeous in a way that seems strangely moving and serene, like Pietàs of the underworld.

— Bob Hicks [9]

Selected solo exhibitions

Selected awards

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  2. 1 2 "Susan Seubert - Expert : National Geographic Expeditions". nationalgeographicexpeditions.com. Retrieved March 5, 2016. She lectures regularly about her work at such institutions as Harvard University and the Portland Art Museum.
  3. ↑ "Susan Seubert". portlandartmuseum.us. Retrieved March 7, 2019.
  4. 1 2 "About Susan Seubert Photography". Commercial, Editorial and Travel Photographer Susan Seubert. August 25, 2008. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
  5. ↑ "Profile". National Press Photographers Association. Retrieved March 7, 2019.
  6. ↑ Bell, Ifanyi (April 17, 2012). "Slideshow: Travel Photographer Susan Seubert". www.opb.org. Archived from the original on December 19, 2013. Retrieved March 7, 2019.
  7. 1 2 "Oregon Arts Commsission announces Awards, Ford Family Foundation grants" (PDF). orgonartscommission.org. May 24, 2011. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
  8. ↑ Johnson, Ken (May 4, 2001). "ART IN REVIEW; 'Danger'". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved August 4, 2020.
  9. ↑ "Susan Seubert's days of the dead". Oregon ArtsWatch. April 25, 2017. Retrieved August 5, 2020.
  10. ↑ "G. Gibson Gallery - Gala Bent + Susan Seubert". us5.campaign-archive.com. Retrieved August 5, 2020.
  11. ↑ "2014 NATJA Award Winners Announced". TravelWorld International Magazine. February 11, 2015. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
  12. ↑ "2014 NATJA Awards Winners". www.natja.org. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
  13. ↑ "2011 NATJA Awards Winners". www.natja.org. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
  14. ↑ "2009 NATJA Awards Winners". www.natja.org. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
  15. ↑ Row, D. K.; Oregonian, The (February 10, 2010). "Upcoming: Lecture by Portland photographer Susan Seubert". oregonlive. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
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