Sarah Zucker’s work is heavily influenced by the Lomographic movement of photography ( www.lomography.com), which inspired her to pick up a camera as an artist for the first time 5 years ago. Despite letting her style evolve in its own directions, she still religiously follows the ten rules of Lomography in her work. They are:
1. Take your LOMO everywhere you go and whenever you go. 2. Use it any time – day or night. 3. Lomography is not an interference in your life, but a part of it. 4. Shoot from the hip. 5. Approach the objects of your lomographic desire as close as possible. 6. Don’t think. 7. Be fast. 8. You don’t have to know beforehand what you’ve captured on film. 9. You don’t have to know afterwards, either. 10. Don’t worry about the rules.
She is rigidly adherent to #10.
Raised in Ohio and living in Chicago as a student at Northwestern University, Zucker’s photos are nothing more nor less than a visual documentation of her own life. Known in lomographic circles as “thesarahshow,” her photos are exactly that; a “show” about who she is and what she does. Paired with a keen sense of composition and a near obsession with color, her laissez-faire approach to photography yields photos that are exuberant and charming; unmistakably full of life.
Website: www.thesarahshow.com
