Sue Abramson

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Sue Abramson is a fine art photographer working in Pittsburgh. For four decades she has produced imagery relating to the environmental landscape using a variety of methods. Abramson’s book, A Woodlands Journal, is a decades long photographic meditation on her evolving relationship with light, loss, chaos and place. Her body of work, From the Same Bulb, includes garden work made in response to personal grief and a life in transition. Widely exhibited, Abramson’s photographs have been acquired for many permanent collections, including The Carnegie Museum of Art, The Polaroid Corporation, University of Pittsburgh, Biblioteque Nationale, and Blue Cross of Western Pennsylvania. Her exhibited work has been nationally and internationally shown. Featured exhibitions include “ The Only Constant is Change” at The Westmoreland Museum of Art, “Gestures 15” at the Mattress Factory, and “Digital to Daguerreotype" at The Carnegie Museum of Art. She is retired from her Associate Professor of Photography position at Pittsburgh Filmmakers, where she taught for 30 years.

“But there is a community that I can just give the love to. And I feel like I did that with this project was just my way of giving sort of big hugs and love to everybody. And then the response and the response to this show has been similar after people have seen it. I just feel like I'm getting all the love back, which is just­­ it's kind of overwhelming.”

—Sue Abramson