Susan Worsham
Susan Worsham (b. 1969) was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia where she continues to live and work. Her photographs draw from her childhood experiences and are deeply personal and poetic. In her series Bittersweet on Bostwick Lane, Worsham takes on not only the grief of loosing both of her parents, but more potently, she comes to terms with her brother’s suicide. In her later work, By the Grace of God, Worsham followed these same roads to take on the mysticism of the literary South, by entering the lives of the very real people who live there.
In 2009, Worsham was nominated for the Santa Fe Prize For Photography, and her book, Some Fox Trails In Virginia, and won first runner-up in the Fine Art category of the Blurb Photography Book Now International Competition. She was named one of Photo District News’ 30 Emerging Photographers to watch in 2011; in 2015, she received both a Lensculture Emerging Talent Award and a Lensculture Portrait Award; and a year later, was nominated for the 2016 Baum Award for an Emerging American Photographer. Worsham’s work can be found in the collections of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art (New Orleans) and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond, VA).