Saskia Baden
Saskia Baden is a photographer from western North Carolina and is currently based in Los Angeles, where she is finishing her MFA at UCLA. She works primarily in large format photography, and will be using the awarded film to continue developing Un earth, a body of work that seeks to describe moments when fear and intrigue rupture into one body—of flesh, of water, of land. This work is not about the objects of fear and/or desire themselves, but about the topography of the sites where they intersect. These sites are often wet and oozing, mirroring the female body– a host to much mythology and belief around the convergence of disgust and desire. Through self portraits, portraits of other women, inscrutable landscapes, and constructed worlds, Saskia uses the dark and wet analog process to surface the unseen spaces that inhabit our porous bodies.
