Artist Statement
My work references the history of photography, while exploring our culture's long-standing fascination with sex and violence. Process Statement
I work in a very "analogue" manner. My work is produced by hand in the studio, using a large format camera and film. I frequently retouch and paint the prints as part of the process.

 

 

Jonah Samson

Lives and works in Vancouver, Canada
www.jonahsamson.net

“WALKING SHADOWS” series awarded top prize at the Palm Springs Photo Review Festival 2012

Exhibitions

2012-13 “Otherworldly” Musée Eugène Leroy, Lille, France.
2012 “Summer Salon” Clark Gallery, Boston, USA.
2012 “Paper Trail” Clark Gallery, Boston, USA.
2012 “Under the Rainbow” Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, USA.
2012 “Slideluck Potshow” Los Angeles, USA.
2012 “Yesterday’s Tomorrow” Museum of Northwest Art. O’Connor, USA.
2012 “Pleasantville” Studio 9. Istanbul, Turkey.
2011 “Otherworldly” Museum of Arts and Design. New York, USA.
2011 “Frame of Reference” Ann Street Gallery. Newburgh, USA.
2011 20th Anniversary Show. G. Gibson Gallery. Seattle, USA.
2011 “Paintings from the Archives of the Pleasantville Historical Society”
G. Gibson Gallery. Seattle, USA.
2010 Aqua Art Fair. Miami Beach, USA.
2010 “Unearthed” Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts. Norwich, UK.
2010 Summer group show. G. Gibson Gallery. Seattle, USA.
2010 “Blow-up” G. Gibson Gallery. Seattle, USA.
2010 “Slideluck Potshow” Berlin, Germany.
2009 “Pleasantville” Chernoff Fine Art. Vancouver, Canada.
2009 “Slideluck Potshow” New York, USA.
2009 “View Master” G. Gibson Gallery. Seattle, USA.


Bibliography

2012 “Darkness in a tiny town” Noir City magazine. Fall 2012.
2012 “Kleine Leute Unzensiert.” Knesebeck Publishing. (German edition)
2012 “An Interview with Jonah Samson.” Here Elsewhere, April 24, 2012.
2012 “Naughty Little People Postcards.” Laurence King Publishing. (UK ed.)
2011 “Microworlds”. Laurence King Publishing.
2011 “A peephole perspective on tiny worlds.” The New York Times. June 12, 2011.
2011 “Photographers’ alternate realities.” The New Yorker: Photobooth. July 12/11.
2011 “Otherworldly”. Exhibition catalogue. Museum of Arts and Design, NY.
2011 “Seven artists who create magical, miniature worlds.” Fast CO. Design.
September 11, 2011.
2011 “Surreal and serene New York.” The Metropolitan. August 26, 2011.
2011 “Artists breathe rambunctious new life into faded treasures at Seattle's
G. Gibson Gallery”. Seattle Times. April 1, 2011.
2011 “I didn’t steal it, I was only borrowing it”. Seattle PI. April 3, 2011.
2011 “The Stranger Suggests: Jonah Samson”. The Stranger. March 16, 2011.
2010 “Microworlds”. Elephant Magazine. Summer 2010, pp 62-67.
2010 “Pleasantville”. FreeStyle Magazine. Summer 2010, pp 70-81.
2010 “Unearthed”. Exhibition catalogue. Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, UK.
2009 “Photographers of miniature scenes create their own little worlds”.
Seattle Times. June 19, 2009.
2009 “Not very Pleasantville”. Utne Reader. June 10, 2009.
2009 “Tiny and tawdry”. Seattle Weekly. June 9, 2009.
2009 DNA Magazine. Issue #114, p 12.
2009 Tickl Magazine. Issue #4.