bio
Susan Lapides is an American photographic artist based in Boston, MA and St. George, NB. Her time-based projects explore adolescence, identity, and place through portraiture and landscape. A former editorial photographer for Smithsonian, Time, and The New York Times, she brings a strong visual narrative to her fine artwork. Her photographs have been exhibited across North America, including solo shows at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, who published St. George: ebb and flow, and the Griffin Museum of Photography. A Critical Mass Top 200 artist (2019, 2024), her work is in public and private collections including the Beaverbrook, Tides Institute and the Fidelity Corporate Art Collection.
www.susanlapides.com
Statement:
Sea Change is a ten year series of annual portraits that began as a study of 17 girls growing up in a small Atlantic Canadian town. Standing by the Bay of Fundy’s vast, tidal expanse, the subjects face the camera as they take stock of and pose with a lobster.
Like the lobsters they hold—creatures that molt and regrow their shells—each individual undergoes their own process of change from childhood to adolescence and into adulthood.
Sea Change is a meditation on time, identity, and the forces of family, place, and culture that shape us.
