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
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.
Many photographs have been made in Cuba, but photographer Susan S. Bank manages to bring an elevated and unique way of seeing to her Cuba reflections. Perhaps it’s that she has spent a decade walking the streets of Havana in search of small, authentic mom
Bank’s self-published first monograph Cuba: Campo Adentro, an intimate portrait of the daily life of Cuban tobacco farmers and their families, was selected as “One of the Best Photography Books of the Year” 2009 PhotoEspaña and named “Best Books 2009,” Photo-eye Books
