Bio:
Zoe received a BFA from MassArt, M.Ed & CAGS from UMass Amherst & Boston. She is a recipient of both national and international awards for her portrait photography. Zoe’s work is included in the permanent collection of the MFA Boston and The Special Collections of the Boston Public Library. Recent exhibitions include Lost & Found, LAC Photo, MassArt Alumni Show, Looking Forward Looking Backward, Free Speech: Art & Activism, “(un)expected families” at MFA Boston and Forever Young at Newport Art Museum. Zoe’s work was represented by Gallery Kayafas for 14 years.
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Statement:
In my early work as a young artist trained in the art of street photography, I followed the tradition of photographers such as Lee Friedlander and Henry Cartier Bresson. Wherever I went, I had my Leica loaded with Tri-x film, strap wrapped around my wrist, with my finger on the shutter. I created a body of images shot on the street corners, in cafes, on subways and buses and in corner stores in the neighborhoods of Boston, New York, New Orleans and other cities. I traveled to Nicaragua and made images while I picked cotton alongside the field workers, captured women cooking, doing laundry and people on the streets. Later, as my friends raised families, I turned my camera to the joys and struggles of parenting.
