Digital Catalogue: 2024 Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award
Sam Scoufos
b. 1979 Orange United States, lives Gowrie Little Plain QLD
Self-Portrait in Water, 2024
archival giclée print
edition 1/3
Image courtesy of the artist © Sam Scoufos
Artist Statement
I've been experimenting with using various liquids as a means to create spontaneous gestures within my work. This purposeful, distorted self-portrait is a challenge to myself as to what a photograph can be.
The refracted and reflected light playing off the peaks and troughs of the moving liquid projects a familiar image of reflection. Yet during this suspension of movement, the liquid reveals a distorted and often grotesque image of self. The way in which the image appears is also reminiscent of agitating a developer tray and revealing a black and white darkroom print.
About the Artist
Sam Scoufos's fine art practice focuses on controlling the unpredictable. He prefers working within the confines of set parameters (of lighting, composition and tone) that he can design and then allow elements outside of his control to guide the direction of the images, often creating abstract forms. His work involves very little post-production, instead he prefers to utilise practical, in-camera techniques.
Scoufos's work is included in this year's American Photography 40 book, a publication that highlights standout achievements in contemporary photography.
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