Artist’s Statement
After a fifteen-year hiatus I’m currently working on a self-retrospective of my images from the years 1965-1998. Sometime around 1998 I stopped shooting film and ceased darkroom work, not wanting to be called a photographer any more.
In 2012 my son talked me into having an Instagram account, which led to my slipping back into a photographer’s life and back into my abandoned darkroom. I’m re-examining my thirty years of contact sheets with older eyes, an older heart, an older mind; viewing images seen by myself in my 20s, 30s and 40s with seventy-two year old eyes; seeing again in a new way.
Caren Sturmer earned her BFA in photography from the Moore College of Art in Philadelphia, and her MFA from The Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. She has won numerous awards for her work and has been widely published in publications such as American Women Photographers, the Baltimore Sun, and Mademoiselle. Find Caren on Instagram @exphotographer.
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