Sam Wyatt Anderson
Photography Undergraduate
SCAD Savannah
Specialisms: Photography
Location: Chicago, United States
Sam Wyatt Anderson
First Name: Sam Wyatt
Last Name: Anderson
Specialisms: Photography
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My Location: Chicago, United States
University / College: SCAD Savannah
Course / Program Title: Photography Undergraduate
About
I am a primarily analog photographer. I enjoy the precision and the pace of a large format 4x5 camera. My work is about the connection between man and nature, which usually resolves itself in architectural landscapes. I travel frequently and I love finding places that are forgotten.
Religion has a way of elevating architecture beyond utility, rendering buildings that assert themselves upon the landscape with a sense of spectacle. Decay and Devotion presents these churches, regardless of denomination, as fixtures of the Southern landscape and as objects of sustained reverence. It is the tension between these sanctified spaces and their disparate surroundings—be it a nuclear power plant or a wall of kudzu—that unsettles and intrigues. For a church to be pure, must it exist apart from the will of man? Or is it the encroachment of industrial infrastructure that heightens its spiritual resonance? These churches are not just places of prayer, but are representative of the endurance and tenacity of their neighboring communities and the complex ecosystems they inhabit.
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