Photographer Susan Kaufer Carey is the Edge of Humanity Magazine contributor of this photo essay. From the project ‘ReSeeding ’. To see Susan ’s body of work, click on any photograph.
ReSeeding is about finding peace in an unpeaceful time. This series of self-portraits, initiated during the 2020 Pandemic, explores self-compassion, preservation, in/sanity in an insane time and profound vulnerability. “ReSeeding” refers both to the need to recede into a space of quiet and deep receptivity as well as planting seeds for new beginnings.
Originally, I took to the water to escape personal and global anxiety. Personally, my life had a lot of movement, loss and big changes. Globally we were becoming increasingly unhinged with precarious world events. Submerging myself in this milky warm water without definition allowed me to go beneath the surface and listen. I could hear the sounds of my breath and my heartbeat and nothing else. It was in this meditative submersion that I could listen beyond the global chatter of fear and uncertainty. In this stillness I could remember the deeper truth of what we came for; to care for ourselves and each other with the utmost of grace, mercy, tenderness and unparalleled love.
Susan Kaufer Carey is a Los Angeles and New York based visual artist and writer who uses photography and mixed media to tell stories of identity and reclamation. Through photography, encaustic, mixed media, poetry and prose, her work explores reclamation of authenticity, vulnerability, creativity and humanity. Despite our vast differences, her work reveals the common threads that unite us all. Susan got her BA in theater at Bennington College, then worked in New York City for fashion photographer Joel Brodsky where she honed her darkroom skills printing for the book Brodsky shot of Jim Morrison and the Doors. While living and working in Rome, Italy refining her work as a street photographer she earned her Italian Press Pass, moved back to her hometown of Los Angeles and opened a portrait studio specializing in fine art nudes, album covers, pregnancy and newborn portraits. In 2015 Susan closed her commercial studio to focus solely on her fine art. Susan’s work has been exhibited at The Von Lintel Gallery, The dnj Gallery, The Neutra Museum, Los Angeles Center of Photography, Los Angeles Photographers Association Gallery 825, LA Artcore, Art Share LA, Sparrow Gallery, A Smith’s Gallery, SoHo Photo Gallery NYC, Ph21 Gallery in Budapest and Foto Nostrum and Museo de la Naturaleza in Spain. Her work has been featured in the book “California Love”, F-stop magazine and Aint-Bad Contemporary Art Magazine. Her photography and poetry have been featured in Art and Cake Magazine. Her work is held in private collections in the US and Rome, Italy.
All images and text © Susan Kaufer Carey
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We normally first, tried to find that peace of mind from outside, and then, we realized, that the world has, nothing but, chaos to offer, then we went on a frenzy, searching for that needed peace, and after we can’t find it, we’d finally, turned, inward, and find exactly what we’d been, looking for, and, we found that retreat we can go to, when everything outside gets, too, messy, and loud.