Sarah Elise Abramson

Week 4 - "Adversity"  Polaroids / Film Impossible © Sarah Seené & Sarah Elise Abramson Montréal / San Pedro 

Week 3 - "Uncomfortable"  Polaroids / Film Impossible © Sarah Elise Abramson & Sarah Seené San Pedro / Montréal 

Week 2 - "Breath"  Polaroids / Film Impossible © Sarah Seené & Sarah Elise Abramson Montréal / San Pedro

Week 1- "Daydreaming"  Polaroids / Film Impossible Project © Sarah Elise Abramson & Sarah Seené San Pedro / Montréal

What this collaboration is about

"I'll be your Mirror" is a collaboration between American photographer, Sarah Elise Abramson, and French photographer, Sarah Seené. This collaboration tells the story they are creating together but from very far away, through polaroid diptychs, like exquisite corpses. Each week Sarah is the other Sarah's mirror. They switch off week to week. One week, one Sarah comes up with a word or expression and portrays that using light, shadows, texture, portraits, whatever they see fit. Then that Sarah sends the other Sarah the photograph. The other Sarah plays off that photograph to portray the same word but in her own voice. Then the next week, it switches. So on and so forth until the story ends or we've mirrored one another enough that it brings us insight into the greater meaning behind this project.

Sarah Elise Abramson is a twenty-eight year old American contemporary photographer. She started shooting 35mm on an all manual Minolta when she was eleven years old. Since then, she grew up, did normal kid things and did not normal kid things. She got to travel a fair share thanks to her fathers job as a child and still enjoys, almost needs, a bimonthly dose of adventure and travel. Yet, she is very fond of her home in San Pedro, California with it's sea foam green exterior and obvious evidence of an artist/collector of all things odd and strange living there, in it's interior. The first and only book Abramson has published is a Nude Polaroid book titled, "The Things That Live in the Middle". It explores the idea of the female body in relation to "spaces of otherness" (a concept elaborated by philosopher Michel Foucault). Currently she serves as a columnist for American Art Collector Magazineand writes the monthly artist interview in CULTURE Magazine. She also spearheads her own independent art magazine called, Slow Toast. Work on the second issue will start within the next month, collaborating with her partner in crime and love, Brenn Lowe. Lastly, Abramson has recently finished a very personal series titled, "Parallels". It's dark and beautiful and full of the unknowable and mystic. Forever inspired by the ambiguous along with nudity (in a non sexual way) and odd compositions paired with an idiosyncratic point of view, she continues to explore the surreal found in the everyday as well as shared cosmologies. You can view her series here: http://www.artslant.com/global/artists/show/370872-sarah-elise-abramson and her blog here: www.sarahelisephoto.tumblr.com — with Sarah Elise Abramson at San Pedro California.

Sarah Seené, is a French twenty-seven year old artist fascinated by nature, human, time and feelings. She's a Polaroid photographer and she's currently directing a feature documentary. Her first photographic memory is very clear. She was 7 years old and alone in her grandmothers garden, where she spent most of her time. She took some photos with a disposable camera of natural things she loved like her shadow on the grass, a cat sleeping under a pear tree and the shining blue water of a plastic swimming pool. It was the beginning of her love with photography. Her work, known as *Welcome to Sarahland* is strongly inspired by her own life, (including self portraits) full of poetry and dreaminess. She colors her pictures with childhood, loneliness and feminity, in the idea of suspended time with worlds which she makes by modifying their reality. When the Polaroid is done developing, she likes emphasizing its surrealism by working again on it with double-exposure manipulation and by adding collages. She's creating stories in dream- like, unreal universes with images that stand in between photography and visual art. Sarah Is a member of the 12.12 project, a feminine collective international group. Her photographs have been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions in Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, Nashville and New York. https://www.facebook.com/WelcomeToSarahland http://sarahseene.tumblr.com/ — with Sarah Seené inMontreal, Quebec, Canada.