Susan Anderson

Susan Anderson portrays people who have become so unreal it is hard to conceive that not the photo but the person was edited. Coming from a background of commercial and editorial photography she knows how to tell a story within a single frame. Her pictures of the queens of child beauty pageants are eerie in their honesty. These pictures were not staged, in fact, they are snapshots taken within a 5-minute frame that the contest organizers would give her. These children are so conditioned to strike a perfect pose every time a lens is aimed at them. While seducing the camera, these children seem to have aged well beyond their years.