Traveling extensively through the US Sid has developed a surprising body of work. Favoring the directness of simple 35mm film cameras Sid is able to capture images that are vibrant and impossible to ignore. Sid's eye moves quickly through the landscape and frames
the world in an unique way, discovering an unseen complex reality.
The work is rooted in a photographic tradition that is rapidly disapearing. The richness of the prints is revealed in the lush color
of the Chromogenic process made directly form negatives
without any digital intervention.
The color in the images reflects both a profound sadness and vibrant energy that gives the prints ambiguity and mystery. Sid photographs places with no apparent attraction and is able to coax images that are poetic and memorable. Photographs of discarded furniture, and broken signs or isolated coastal landscapes are produced with a hungry eye that reacts with total immediacy and feeling.
The Polaroid body of work operates with the same poetic immediacy as the film work but Sid adds to it a more intimate dimension. The tone is very often documentary recording friends and private events populating the images with a close inner view.
The film work is mostly devoid of people whereas the Polaroid images depict spontaneous moments producing images that are steeped in a more humanist and candid tradition.
In 2014 Sid designed and published “No Words Exchanged” a
book of Polaroids which shows work produced over several years of practice.
Sid's work is not a random collection of images shot haphazardly here and there. There is a discipline and structure behind all these images where we find a cohesive and unique visual language. It is the product of a vision charged with urgency and humor.
- Robert Neufeld
Sid is a photographer and curator creating content, art shows, and events. Born in 1990 they studied at the School of Visual Arts and hold a BFA in Photography and Art History from SUNY Purchase in New York.
All images © 2023 Sidney Newman