November 13, 2023 – December 02, 2023: London Fields by Sarah Sheard

Open to the Public on Mondays, November 13, 20, 27 from 5:30pm to 7:00pm and on Saturday, November 18, from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm.

Sarah Sheard was given her first camera (Olympus Trip) on her 12th birthday. She ran outside and took slides of rainbow gutters, drain covers, shiny car bumpers, reflections in windows. Lost now, it was the start of observing and searching out the poetry inside the everyday, working with light and projection. She became a writer and her third novel, The Hypnotist, was written from the point of view of a photographer. In 2012, Sarah started making video trailers for her 4th novel. She discovered the joy of shooting and editing videos and working with a still camera again, looking for the poetry and stories in the everyday world with the camera. During the Covid lockdown in 2020, she collaborated with her late partner, actor David Fox, making green screen animated videos and a short documentary on his life.

In September, 2022, Sarah took her Leica DLux7 (converted B&W) to London, England and discovered the joy of photographing its streets and natural beauty. She went back in June-July, 2023 to document more of London's streets and parks, pubs and faces. In reflecting on the differences between writing and working with images, perhaps one is that a writer must withdraw from the world in order to write while a photographer goes out into the world in order to create. Making photographs and videos is the closest thing she has found to be a combination of both.

Iskouhee Kirakosyan, Powell Gallery Curator,