Statement
My work draws strongly on the landscape, focusing on my home, family and myself in conversation with the natural world. I am often attracted to the objects and artifacts that we surround ourselves with, as memory-memory-laden emblems of our history and signifiers of the passing of time; how a sense of place can be embedded with personal history. I focus on the photographic object, the print, or the artist book, as a keepsake of my experience in the world. It provides me in a very tangible and tactile way of recording my discoveries and holding on to the memories I am trying to preserve. Photographing gives me a way to capture my impressions and writing and making books and objects lets me distill and reexamine that experience. -STK

Project Statement on Janus Rising
The Roman God Janus is frequently depicted with two faces, one looking forward to the future and one back to the past. In this work I explore that duality, as my awareness begins to focus on getting older and finding myself at a point of transition and shift. As women we inhabit different roles throughout our lives, worker, spouse, mother, sister, friend. With Janus Rising, I consider a different future and identity. Each image is an exploration of time’s passing, exploring the interplay between fragility and strength and the resilience of self. I am looking at what comes next, whilst processing what I must surrender, intent on not retreating, but on laying claim to a new beginning. -STK

Bio
Originally from the UK, photographer and artist Sal Taylor Kydd earned her BA in Modern Languages from Manchester University in the UK and has an MFA in Photography from Maine Media College. Her fine art photographs have been exhibited throughout the country and internationally, including Barcelona, Portland, Maine, Boston and Los Angeles. Sal is also a writer and poet, and has self-published a number of books combining her poetry with her photographs. Her books are in numerous private and museum collections throughout the country including The Getty Museum and the Maine Women Writer’s Collection at the University of New England. Sal’s latest artist book is The Call, is a hand-made letterpress artist book and her book of poems and photographs, Just When I Thought I Had You, is now in its second edition. Sal’s books are represented by Patricia Juvelis Inc and are also available through Vamp and Tramp booksellers. Sal and her family reside in Rockport, Maine where she is on the board of Maine Media Workshops and College.

CV
EDUCATION

2016 Maine Media College, Rockport MFA in Photography

1996 NE Institute of Art, Boston, PDip. Broadcast Journalism

1993 Manchester University, England BA Hons. Modern Languages

SOLO/TWO PERSON SHOWS

2019, The Photographic Gallery, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, Janus Rising

2019, Gallery 169, Los Angeles CA Janus Rising,

2018, Panopticon Gallery, Boston, Recollections

2018, North Haven Gallery, ME, Winterhaven

2018, Zoots Gallery, Camden ME, Hireath,

2017, Kingman Gallery, Deer Isle, ME, Hiraeth

2017 Pho Pa Gallery, Portland ME, Momentary Certainties

2017, Pascal Hall, Rockport ME Unspoken

2016, Pascal Hall, Rockport ME Keepsakes,

2016, Gallery 169, Los Angeles, CA Origins

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019, Page Gallery Camden ME, Frolic.

2019, Bee St, Savannah, GA, Kindred

2019, UMVA Gallery, Portland, ME, The Way Life Is,

2018, CMCA Biennial, Rockland Maine

2018, The Griffin Museum of Photography, Keepsakes – Photobook Initiative

2018, The Image Flow, 3rd Annual Alt Pro Photography Exhibition

2018, Maine Media Gallery, Rockport ME, Found

2018, Fresh Start Art Show 2018, Los Angeles

2017, Soho Gallery, NYC. 13th Annual National Alternative Processes Competition

2017, Maine Media Gallery, The Door Between, Book Arts & Historic Processes

2017, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Fine Wine & Fine Books

2017, The Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester MA, 23rd Juried Exhibition

2017, Pascal Hall, Rockport ME Three Artists – Unspoken

2017, Fall Line Press, Atlanta GA Fall Line Fifty Photobooks

2017, DIAA Gallery, Deer Isle, ME, Crows Nest

2017, SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC, Forsaken

2017, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX, Summertime

2016, Colonel Eugene Myers Gallery, Grand Forks, MD, Of Memory, Bone & Myth

2016, Pascal Hall, Rockport ME, Keepsakes (MFA Graduate Show)

2016, Keystone Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, A River Runs Through It

2014, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX, Magic

BOOKS

2018, Silver Glinting single folio book

2018, The Call, Hand-made artist book

2018, Just When I Though I Had You, second hardcover edition

2017, Keepsakes, Hand-made letterpress artist book

2016, Late Love, Hand-made artist book

AWARDS

2018, Runner Up, San Francisco Book Festival, Just When I Thought I Had You

2018, Honorable Mention, Julia Margaret Cameron Alternative Process Awards

2017, Best Photobooks, 2017, Fall Line Fifty Award Just When I Thought I Had You

2014, Jurors Award for Magic, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX

PUBLICATIONS

2019, Artist Spotlight: Don’t Take Pictures Magazine.

2019, Touch all the Senses with Kindred, Savannah Now

2019, Kindred Spirits Photo Installation, Savannah Connect

2019, Feature on Keepsakes in Don’t Take Pictures magazine.

2019, Featured on Your Daily Photograph

2019, LA Weekly Meet the Artist Interview

2018, Wall Street International Magazine Recollections at The Panopticon

2018, What Will You Remember, Review of Recollections Panopticon Gallery, Boston

2018, Portland Press Herald, Review of CMCA Biennial

2018, Voyager, Boston Sal Taylor Kydd Profile

2018, Maine Home and Design, Found Objects

2018, The Hand Issue #19.

2017, Hawk & Handsaw Batrachomany Wagenaar & Kydd

2017, Portland Press Herald Two Artists

2016, Feature Shoot, Return to Photography’s Roots

2016, Diversions LA LA Show Review

2016, We Choose Art Artist Interview

2016, Artful Amphora, Women Around Town

2016, Make Photo Art, Artist Interview

2016, Silvershotz Magazine, Review

2016, L’Oeil Magazine Show Review

2015, Maine Media College Artist Interview

TALKS

2018, Pecha Kucha

2016, Maine Media MFA Interview

TEACHING

Sal teaches a variety of workshops at Maine Media College in Rockport, including

Exploring Photographic Styles and The Poetry of Place

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Lenscratch Article on Kindred

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