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ann waddell

bio

Ann Waddell was born and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She attended Princeton University where she studied with Emmet Gowin, Mary Berridge, and Andrew Moore. There she received the Marten Dale award, the Louis Sudler Prize, and the Wolfen Fund, all for her work in photography. She currently works at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and is a teaching assistant at the International Center of Photography. In the fall of 2003, she will begin an M.F.A. program at Massachusetts College of Art.

statement

I am fascinated by how the mundane and seemingly quiet moments from our everyday lives are often the most evocative, and the most fragile. I look for this in the faces and gestures of the people whom I photograph, as they complement their surrounding spaces with simple, fleeting beauty. The two images of children are from a body of work in which I photographed children living in trailer parks along Route 1 in central New Jersey. The two photographs of women are from a series made in my last year at Princeton University, where I photographed women friends and acquaintances in everyday places. Michigan Backyard was made this past winter not far from my parents’ home.