Sam
Evans
 

Sam Evans is a visual artist with a main focus on photography. She was born in 1995 in a small town in Germany. She spent most of her time in nature and discovered her fascination for legends, folklore and the obscure at an early age. Understanding what lies in people's deeper instincts and what lies behind their emotions is important to her. She studied Fine Arts and Art Education at HBK Braunschweig (Germany) and Kyoto Seika University (Japan) and graduated in 2023 in both subjects and completed her master student degree in 2024 in Corinna Schnitt's class, specialising in photography and video art.

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In their photography, they relate the body and nature to each other. They are increasingly concerned with artefacts, rituals, memories, imaginary constructs and the environment. Cycles, protective mechanisms, human rawness and the significance of places play a central role in their work. In my work, the relationship to humanity's approach to identity and diversity, as well as my own, is often translated into the language of biodiversity of flora and fauna. Particularly important are not only the way the world deals with nature but also queerness and neurodiversity.

Through planning and staging, the images are intended to appear both abstruse and otherworldly as well as authentic. In order to expand the concept of photography, they experiment with various analogue techniques, post-colouring methods and alternative and installative presentation options. They often combine other media such as painting and sculpture with their photographs in order to remove their reference to reality and instead place them in their own imaginary cosmos and context.