Sami Kelsh shoots with ten film cameras. Several others are now defunct. She has been shooting for about ten years. These are some of her experiments in seeing.

I'm not looking for truth. I don't think there is such a thing. I'd be skeptical of anything that purports to express an objective truth, even if we take a more limited, culturally-specific definition of objectivity. Granted, a photograph is a record of a specific moment, but a moment viewed from only one of an infinite number of angles, and indeed, the medium itself imbues the resulting image with meanings not present in the event as it exists in linear time. Sometimes, when I take a photograph, I see in it things I was not even aware of feeling at the time. Sometimes, I remember photographs better than the events that precede them: memory betrays itself. Sometimes, little apparent truths make themselves manifest: not objective truths, not universal, but things that, for a time, for me, are held true. Sometimes these truths transform themselves with time, are seen differently, assimilate new meanings and reject old ones: stories being written and rewritten continuously within the same little rectangles of chemicals and celluloid. I tell myself stories; I write letters to the world.

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Housekeeping:

It should be noted that many of these works are available for sale. It should also be noted that other sizes of prints are available, just ask. If you want something smaller or bigger, I'd be happy to accomodate. I promise I won't bite.

Please also see the "News" page for updates and periodical theoretical musings about art, my art, and so forth.