Artist Statement
Over the decades, my photographic work has drawn me to the timeless and sacred places of many cultures, which I seek to honor. I am fascinated with the ways the mysteries of life, death, and the universe are interpreted in these different belief systems. In particular, I have become interested in the relationship between these systems of belief and the natural world. I have focused primarily on shrines and sacred iconography, but always with a reference to the landscape in which it abides. As with belief, these are human meditations of our desire to grasp the unknowable, representing the conflict between our consciousness and a universe that is incomprehensible.
Linda Connor has had a long and distinguished career in photography, and has traveled extensively nationally and internationally to produce her work, including to India, Turkey, Peru, Iceland, South East Asia, and the southwest of the United States. Since the late 1960’s, she has been teaching in the Photography department at the San Francisco Art Institute and exhibiting, publishing, and presenting her work nationally and internationally. In 2002, she founded PhotoAlliance, a bay area non-profit organization dedicated to the understanding, appreciation and creation of contemporary photography, and currently serves as its president. A compendium of her work, Odyssey: The Photographs of Linda Connor, was published in 2008. This monograph includes over thirty years of photographs and was accompanied by a nationally traveling exhibition. Her work has appeared in a number of other monographs: Solos, On the Music of the Spheres, Luminance, Odds & Ends, and Spiritual Journey. A recipient of, among other awards, National Endowment for the Arts grants and a Guggenheim fellowship, Connor was the given the Society of Photographic Education’s Honored Educator Award in 2005.
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