Samantha Box
Samantha Box is a Jamaican-born, Bronx-based photographer. During the next year, using the generous supply of Kodak 4x5 Portra 400 provided by the Film Photo Award, she will expand her on-going still-life series, Caribbean Dreams, creating a suite of photographs that question the ways that ideas of the wild landscape, paradise and utopia have been delineated in relation to the Caribbean, and to the “New World” at large. The 200 sheets of film granted by this Award will provide much-needed and –valued room for the experimentation that - in Box’s experience - leads to images that have gone beyond initial concepts, broaching greater, more nuanced narratives of Caribbean diaspora.
