Sandy Carson is originally from Scotland, and traveled to America in 1993. Since then, she has aimed to capture day to day norms of the people and places she comes across. Her photos show raw imagery of her subjects, allowing viewers to get a sense of the true atmosphere and culture. Her images often contain a large view, not lacking in content, but her focus or use of negative space around a particular object allow the viewer to focus.
The portraits Carson takes are largely unposed, unplanned, candid representations of those people in their everyday life activities. This gives us the sense that she really wants to explore the true nature of the country and it's people, perhaps to adjust to living somewhere so far from where she came. Her landscape and still life images also remain untouched, in their natural state. This lack of alterations leaves the feeling of having really been in the place. Many of her landscapes depict seemingly isolated areas, which may express the sense of loneliness that one often feels when somewhere new, knowing no one.
Her images speak to me because I also have a fascination with finding the overlooked, forgotten, or unrecognized objects of the area I am in. I often photograph "found objects" or everyday people and place, rather than posed models or constructed sets. For this reason, I can look at Carson's work and appreciate the detail and voice that she gives her subject by this isolated composition within a frame. I picked four images because I couldn't narrow don to my three favorites!
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