Sarah Louise Adamson’s Human Condition

Sydney-based photographer Sarah Louise Adamson‘s work is tied inherently to the human condition, having been initiated as the result of a negative side of humanity and existing as a way to explore it.

“I never had a huge passion at a young age for photography, film or any of that,” she told us, “I transferred from beginner’s French to art late in high school because the teacher was a mad creep so maybe that helped a bit. I think it is more my interest in people and capturing them that is more my fascination rather than the art itself.”

The 24-year-old, who is also a graphic designer and musician, has busied herself exploring the nature of people and how we exist both alone and with each other. Her ongoing series ‘Let Them Smoke’, particularly, is a response to what it means to live in the contemporary world.

“[It] began as I was thinking about all the disasters, man made and natural, that were going on. It seems every second week there was something major going on. As I kept thinking about it, and as I was reading the bible, the idea was clear to me that humanity is so fragile, and that our fragility doesn’t change. I think that I was only aware of our human condition when it was magnified through a disaster but I guess I wanted to explore that at any moment anything could happen. That idea could then make us reflect on the way that we view ourselves, that perhaps we aren’t as in control of our lives as we thought.”

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