Georgia Landman (American) was born 1964 in Thessaloniki, Greece, grew up in The Netherlands and moved to the US in 2001. Landman earned her BFA in photography at Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, GA, graduating summa cum laude in 2010.
A contemporary fine art and freelance photographer, the human connection is her main focus and she aims to instigate empathy through her photographs, contributing to human connection through art. Curiosity and sometimes amazement about social and cultural human behaviors inspire Landman's projects, whether they depict people or not. Landman lives and works in New Concord, NY. Landman was exposed to photography at a young age, by spending time in her father’s darkroom and being amazed by images appearing on blank paper, just because they were floating in developer. Her first camera was a Kodak Instamatic, followed by a twin reflex Lubitel. Picking up photography as a profession didn’t occur until later in life, after graduating from SCAD in 2010. Expecting to be a black-and-white street photographer, Landman became more interested in digital photography, where often the scenes are composed in a controlled setting, allowing her to focus on the message of the photograph.
Between 2012 - 2014 Landman collaborated with her father Frederick Linck (1942-2020) on a big project called ‘Vaders Dochters’ (‘Fathers Daughters). Even though the project was about them, they built a body of work using other fathers and daughters and using their different photography stiles to show their relationship. The published work (Epos Press) was exhibited in 2014 at Pulchri in The Hague, curated by Wim van Sinderen (curator at The Hague Museum of Photography).
Following ‘Vaders Dochters’ Landman continued taking portraits, and started another major project, ‘Perfect Imperfections’. While looking at wilting and dying plants, Landman found similarities between how plants and people age. Many people fight this process, or try to slow it down, while plants are living their designed life cycle. The beauty, expression, texture and color that dying plants have often reminds Landman of a human face or human skin. The grace a plant or flower shows during their end of life is inspiring to Landman, wishing more people would embrace their own aging process with similar attitude. By showing the incredible beauty of these objects Landman hopes to instill reconciliation with the viewer.
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845.706.4449 | georgia@georgialandman.com
