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BIOGRAPHY

Savannah Gonzalez began her photography practice as a teen. She landed her first group exhibition at the Westport Museum of Contemporary Art in Connecticut at 18 years old (where she also sold her first photograph). She spent a summer in New York City attending The Cooper Union’s Summer Art Intensive for highschoolers. She also attended Global Leadership Adventures' month long Photojournalism and volunteer program in Dharamshala, India. Two weeks after her return from Asia she went to the Washington Journalism and Media Conference at George Mason University to learn more about photojournalism. In 2019, Gonzalez was accepted into Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and graduated in 2023 with a BFA in Photography and Imaging. While at NYU she documented capital climate projects and urban plant life. During her first summer as a graduate Gonzalez worked for photographer Sylvia Plachy and interned for art director and book-designer Ruth Ansel. For the last two years Gonzalez has been volunteering for NGOs such as National Day Laborers Organizing Network and Healing the Children Northeast, covering the immigration crisis in America and child dental care in Africa's largest slum, Kibera. Currently, Gonzalez is working at a photography studio in Greenwich, CT and is developing her body of work for private collectors and galleries.

ARTIST STATEMENT

In every great photograph there is a feeling of wonder and discovery that drives me to travel the world and create photographs. The infinite potential for a photograph fills me with an incredible sense of adventure. My hope is to capture photographs that reach hearts and open minds, stir people's empathy and expand their point of view. Photographs allow us all to embrace new perspectives and to share a breadth of stories about the diversity of human life, wildlife, and our planet's nature in a way that is visceral and real. As a photographer I embrace the world around me and stand as a witness to beauty, love, pain, struggle and tell each story with compassion and respect. My practice blends fine art and documentary photography in every collection of my work. Master photographers such as Steve McCurry and John Stanmeyer have inspired me greatly in this respectThese masters of photography, as well as many others, continue to teach me the importance of photographing with a purpose. My purpose is to help you see the world with a focus on embracing cultures different than yours, feeling awestruck by species you've never seen with your own eyes, and recording moments that stir empathy and hope among the human race, for the planet and all of its inhabitants.

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