Photographer: Ken Sax
Biography
Naomi was born in New York, New York, and grew up in a small city outside of Boston. She became interested in photography when she saw her first stop-frame animation film as a child. She began creating her own stories using found objects around the house and constructed sets from cardboard. She studied both Photography and Psychology at Bard College. She learned to shoot both digital and analogue, and also studied abnormal psychology with a focus on neuropharmacology. Living in a rural town in the Hudson Valley near Bard inspired her to photograph interactions with the infamous landscape. In her first year of college, Naomi was diagnosed an autoimmune disorder. Throughout her college years she continued to fight to bring her disease under control. This struggle shifted the focus of her art, from landscape to the human form. In her most recent body of work "A Doctrine of Signatures", through photo manipulation of sculpture, she addressed medical imagery and western medical practices. Her work was displayed at the 2017 Whitney Houston Biennial in New York City, at Woods Studio at Bard, and was recently on view in Limner Gallery's show "Strange Figurations" in Hudson, New York.
Contact:
Email: naomizahler@gmail.com Phone: 508-816-0267
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