Interview with Cig Harvey: YOU Look At ME Like An EMERGENCY
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Sometimes you come across work you fall in love with, work that resonates with you in such a deep way, and you begin seeing the world through the lens and point of view of a great image maker. I have been a fan of Cig Harvey’s photographs from the moment I encountered her way of seeing. Cig is a visual painter, creating images that shimmer with color and gesture, that have the punctuation and staccato of red berries, purple finger nails, or a field of fireflies at night. She speaks to memory, to moments, to quiet and beauty, and never loses her connection to the natural world. Her work is a sensory experience, where you feel what she feels when she captured the dapple of summer sunlight on skin or the splash of water that is a color only our memories seem to hold.
I am thrilled to share that Cig has a new monograph,
You Look At Me Like An Emergency. The book is a spectacular autobiographical culmination of her relationships, experiences, and moments in her life. Published by
Schilt,
You Look At Me Like An Emergency conveys the universal quest for personal identity and place in the world.
Cig recently moved to Maine where she lives with husband and baby. She works as an editorial and fine art photographer and her work has been exhibited widely and is in the permanent collections of many major museums. She was a recent finalist for the prestigious BMW Prize at Paris Photo and recently had her first solo museum show at The Stenersen Museum in Oslo, Norway.
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