191 - Anastasia Samoylova
Anastasia Samoylova (b. 1984, USSR) is an American artist who moves between observational photography and studio practice. Her work explores notions of environmentalism, consumerism and the picturesque.
Recent exhibitions include Eastman Museum; Chrysler Museum of Art; The Photographer's Gallery; Kunst Haus Wien; HistoryMiami Museum; and Museum of Fine Arts, Le Locle.
In 2022 Anastasia was shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize. Her work is in the collections at the Perez Art Museum Miami and Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago, among others.
Published monographs include Floridas (Steidl, 2022) and FloodZone (Steidl, 2019), with her latest work, Image Cities, forthcoming as a book and exhibition in 2023.
On episode 191, Anastasia discusses, among other things:
- Recent hurricane
- Forthcoming book and exhibition project, Image Cities
- Her abiding interest in collage
- Adding vs. reducing - abstracting the world
- Florida and her FloodZone book
- Her perspective on the climate emergency: alarmist but not defeatist
- Why she ended up living in Miami
- How she came to start making pictures
- The distinctive Florida colour palette
- The Floridas book
- Climate anxiety - and other types
- Having a strong work ethic
Referenced:
- Stephen Shore
- Eugène Atget
- Jacques Tati
- Mies van der Rohe
- Ansel Adams
- Walker Evans
- David Campany
- Alec Soth
- William Eggleston
- Alexander Rodchenko
- Varvara Stepanova
“The key impulse here is the sense of gratitude for being able to do what I’ve always known I wanted to do, and feeling zero entitlement to this. It’s an immense privilege to be in this line of work.”