Christy Bush, Tia Ascending, 2018; archival pigment print
Tabitha Soren, St. Helena, 2019; archival pigment print with unique paper cuts
In a world where billions of images are taken and uploaded to the Internet each day, to be consumed by a society addicted to screens, it has become harder than ever for a photograph to stand out in any sort of meaningful way.
Both Tabitha Soren and Christy Bush, photographers who each closed solo exhibitions at Laney Contemporary in Savannah, Georgia, on March 25, are aware of this conundrum. “It’s very hard to take unique images that haven’t been seen already,” says Soren, who began her career as a reporter for MTV, ABC and CBS in the 1990s, and transitioned to a career in fine art photography after studying at Stanford University in 1997.
“I have to take a lot of courage to feel ok with the fact that there is a style to my work, and there are other people who do work like me,” says Bush, who began her career as a fashion photographer and has spent the last few decades building a body of work in the South, where she is now located. (Currently, Bush is based in Asheville, North Carolina, but has spent much of her time in Athens, Georgia.)
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