Jonathan Blaustein: You used to be a stand up comedian? Susan Burnstine: I worked in the entertainment business for many years, in many aspects. I started playing with stand-up comedy after. I was out there 8 years or so. Can’t say I was that great. JB: (
Nothing looked like what I was trying to communicate. My Dad was an engineer and inventor early in his lifetime. He would always build things in the house that were absolutely crazy. When I took my problem to him, he said, “Why don’t you just make your own cameras?”
Words like “status” and “success” make me itchy since they tend to define my work in a way that has an absolute or an ending, rather than an ongoing flow
I aksed my friend, Susan Burnstine, what she was featuring at Photo LA this weekend and it turns out that Susan will be represented by two galleries, Kevin Longino Fine Photographs from CT and TX and the Susan Spiritus Gallery from Newport Beach, CA.
Finding the right camera to express one’s vision is a challenge that every photographer must deal with at some point. When conventional cameras proved unsatisfactory for Susan Burnstine, however, she simply decided to build her own in order to channel the haunting, dreamlike imagery that has won her widespread critical acclaim over the past several years.
