Sarah Neumann
Calgary, Alberta
ARTIST BIO
Sarah is a Calgary-based photographer with a background in Environmental Science and Geography. Her work explores the intersections of nature and performance, most often through analog techniques. She is passionate about visual storytelling as a tool to make science more accessible, creating images that connect contemporary research questions with human experience. Sarah is also a figure skating coach, musician, and theatre artist. These experiences continue to inform her interest in performance and human connection within her photography.
PROJECT STATEMENT
“This series, titled Chameleon, explores the dissonance in how humans relate to our environments, both natural and built. Each hand-printed image was created on 35mm film in collaboration with my sister, a dancer, as the subject. Together, we explored movement as a way of reintegrating the human body with its surroundings. In these images, the subject becomes camouflaged, echoing a chameleon folding back into its environment. This act of blending with place challenges the common paradigm of human separation and superiority over nature. Chameleon invites viewers to reconsider our relationships with the world around us and to reflect on the need for deeper, more reciprocal connections in an increasingly divisive age.” – Sarah Neumann
