Environmental Memento Mori

• Photographer
  Susan Richman, United States
• Studio
  Susan Richman
• Website
  https://susanrichmanphotography.com
• Instagram
  srichmanphoto

The alarming decrease of insects, birds and animals inspired my series that explores the juxtaposition between permanence and impermanence. Inspired by Victorian Memento Mori, photos that posed a deceased beloved family member in their finest clothes and with their favorite objects, I too pose my subjects in an imagined environment. With each photo, created in camera, I am honoring and memorializing insects and other small animals whose troubling decline makes their recognition important and poignant

Born in Washington, Pennsylvania, Richman now lives in Hastings on Hudson, a suburb of NYC. Her love affair with photography began her freshman year of college when she was forced to pick between art or math as a course elective. To the dismay of her parents who were hoping she would become a lawyer, she majored in Fine Arts with a focus on photography and upon graduation she began a successful career as a commercial photographer in Manhattan.


After years of photographing other people’s visions, she has evolved into an artist and educator. Prior to Covid, she was a teacher at The Internation

Awards
2021 Solo Exhibition of Jenga at The Cloud Gallery at the Griffin Museum;

2021 The Art Of New York group exhibition at the Arkell Museum;

Finalist, 2021 Larry Salley Photography Award, ArtsWestchester;

Best Of Show, 2020 Non Member National Juried Exhibition, Salmagundi Club.