Lucien Samaha and His Crying Photographs

This studio visit with the artist Lucien Samaha follows his exhibition at Pioneer Works, A History of Digital Photography. Samaha’s work brings together three decades of the artist’s work—a time period that corresponds with the rise of digital photography; in 1990, Samaha was the inaugural recipient of Kodak’s Professional Photography Division scholarship, becoming the first person to use Kodak’s DCS 100 Professional Digital Camera System outside the factory floor. Since then, the artist’s pioneering experiments with the form have reflected this radical new era of image-making. This studio visit gives us a deeply intimate account of this history, through Samaha’s obsessive chronicling of the people and places around him.