Sandra-Lee Phipps is a passionate fine art photographer, documentarian, and educator. Ms. Phipps is a full-time faculty member and Professor of Photography at Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta Georgia and is represented in the Southeast by Whitespace Gallery in Atlanta Georgia.
Ms. Phipps work explores the representation of the self and the body in both the documentary tradition and personal fine art projects. Ms. Phipps holds a B.A. in Journalism from The University of Georgia, Athens Georgia and a Master’s of Art in Studio Arts degree from New York University
“Safe” is a series of photographs that address the search for safety in our current cultural environment as well as in our volatile and fragile landscape. These works are set in untamed forests and rural farmlands of Maine, a place of personal reflection and security for Phipps. Interweaving archetypal images with a symbolic color of power, protection and danger – orange, Phipps explores the fragile sense of self, self-preservation and her role as an artist within this expansive landscape. These images are conceptual, performative and contain a set of self-portraits of the artist.
“Lessons in Survival” is a series created as part of a group exhibition “Against the Tide” at Whitespace Gallery and is the latest exhibition for Ms. Phipps- a collaborative project featuring female artists covertly and overtly dismantling perceptions of what it is to be female. Lumen prints of botanical artifacts collected while creating the work are interwoven to represent the healing possible in our surroundings.
-Sandra-Lee Phipps
Bio:
Sandra-Lee Phipps is a passionate fine art photographer, documentarian, and educator. Ms. Phipps is a full-time faculty member and Professor of Photography at Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta Georgia and is represented in the Southeast by Whitespace Gallery in Atlanta Georgia.
Previous teaching positions include Computer Art in the NYU/ICP Studio Arts program in NYC and Documentary Photography at Rockport College/ Maine Media Workshops, Rockport Maine.
Professionally, Ms. Phipps free-lanced extensively for The Village Voice newspaper, The New York Times, Reader’s Digest, Vanity Fair, The Sun Magazine, and the Washington Post Magazine. Her work is held in numerous private collections worldwide.
