The States Project: New Hampshire: Susan S. Bank | LENSCRATCH

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The States Project: New Hampshire: Susan S. Bank

Just last summer Executive Director and Curator Paula Tognarelli at the Griffin Museum of Photography asked me if I knew Susan S. Bank. I was familiar with her photographic series Salisbury, but, we had never met, and the next thing I know I am sitting on

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Susan is an accomplished black and white film photographer, having studied with Constantine Manos, learning from his acute approach to observation and the frame. Her book Campo Adentro is captivating, bringing the mundane details of day-to-day life into view. It is poetically done, a most intimate journal of visual discovery. This work was recently featured in a solo show at the Leica Gallery in Boston, where Susan and Consta had a conversation among many photography celebrities of the Boston area.