Brief biography:
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An Associate Professor of Photography,
Susan Lakin has a BFA in Photography from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California and a MFA in Art Studio from
the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Before arriving to RIT, Susan worked commercially in Los Angeles and Australia; some of her clients included Adidas, Avon,
Harper's Bazaar, Nordstrom and Sebastian. In addition to her commercial work, she owned a professional retail photographic
supply store in Burbank, CA.
Her photography has received many awards and is part of the permanent collection at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art
and Oakland Museum of California. Her exhibitions include: NYC at Gallery @49, Rochester at Memorial Art Gallery,
Germany at the Fotografie Forum International, Boston at the Photographic Resource Center, California at the Santa Barbara
Museum of Art Ridley Tree, the University Art Museum Santa Barbara, as well as, the Robert V Fullerton Art Museum.
Artist Statement:
Television Portraits – Statement
Our daily interaction with technology has been a topic of examination throughout my artwork. Today we are more interactive with electronic media; we connect every day with screens from our televisions, movies, computers, and hand held devices, blurring the lines between public and private spaces. How these screens frame our world, reflects on our lives.
Considering the exponential growth of technology we will soon see the disappearance of the traditional television set in our homes. My current series looks at the prominence of the television in our residence today and documents two alternate dimensions of the rooms where we place these devices, one in the television screen and the other of the room containing the television. Fascinated with the cultural phenomenon of reality television I began capturing my subject’s reflection on their inactive television set by enhancing the screen’s mirror image with artificial light. As portraits, my photographs take a contemporary look at the family and home in today’s society and identity through mass media.
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