J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation with Anastasia Samoylova and David Campany

Written By Sybylla Smith


Episode #45, Summary

A visual dialog between images made by two distinctly observant and kindred photographers exploring the beguiling state(s) of Florida. 


Episode Notes 
A palpable synergy permeates David Campany’s animated sequence of over 140 images and paintings in Anastasia Samoylova, Walker Evans Floridas. A playful interaction that recontextualizes Evans' archive, also illuminates photography’s unique ability to capture paradox, metaphor and oxymoron. Both Samoylova and Evans investigate deeper truths and the mixed feelings generated at the intersection of myth, reality and the wild possibilities in between. 

In this conversation, Anastasia Samoylova and David Campany discuss, among other things:

  • Contributing to the roadtrip canon from a female perspective

  • Looking first

  • Ungendered images

  • Parsimony and composition

  • Showing time in one frame

  • Ability of work to endure

  • Leaving meaning open

  • Nietzsche and Baudelaire

  • Nostalgia

  • Sovereign

  • Sense of scale

Referenced in the episode

Florida by Lauren Groff
AIPAD 
Laurence Miller Gallery 
ICP Photography Fest
The Photograpers Gallery
Photo London
Carol O’Breen Gallery
Walker Evans
The Lives and Loves of Images, 2020
William Klein: YES 
Natalie Goncharova - Rayonism 
The Picture of Dorian Gray 


Anastasia Samoylova Website | Instagram
David Campany Website | Instagram

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