Suzanne Thedora White’s portfolio was selected by juror Melanie Walker as a Work of Merit in the 2025 Rfotofolio Call.
” This body of photographs confronts the Anthropocene through a material language of rupture and accumulation, using crumpling, layering, tearing and other interventions to mirror the fractured condition of contemporary landscapes. The physical manipulation of the images resists the illusion of photographic neutrality, asserting instead that the land—like the photograph itself—has been acted upon, stressed, and reshaped by human forces. Creases function as fault lines, tears read as wounds, and layered fragments suggest sedimentation accelerated beyond geological time. Formally, the work is dense and restless, compelling the viewer to navigate surfaces that refuse a single, stable vantage point. At its strongest, the series collapses distinctions between image and object, implicating photographic practice in the same extractive impulses it critiques. Occasionally, the visual intensity risks overwhelming the conceptual clarity, but this excess also feels appropriate to the subject: a world defined by accumulation, damage, and unresolved tension. Ultimately, the work offers a poignant meditation on the Anthropocene, framing landscape not as a passive backdrop but as a contested, scarred, and materially unstable site of human consequence.” Melanie Walker
“From a fixed point on the map, I am a traveler through the Anthropocene. With my project, The New American Landscape, I explore the tragic reality that there is now no place on earth that hasn’t been altered, degraded, or polluted by human activity. For 45 years I have lived on a farm in Maine where I raised sheep. I have watched the land and ecosystems change, evolve, and succumb to climate-related weather events; witnessed the slow depletion of wildlife, and the encroachment of invasive species.
With my work, I examine our cultural disconnect from the natural world and explore how I can repair my own relationship with the land. I use photographs I have taken over the years and construct what I think of as theaters to tell stories of loss and hope while creating past and present and suggesting what the future may hold. The existential act of tearing, crushing, and remaking a historical photograph is a cathartic act to process my ecological grief. It is a search for spiritual reconciliation and a quest to find beauty in what remains. Please join me on this journey.”
Suzanne Theodora White
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