Down for the Day & A Further Shore
This selection of photographs is drawn from two distinct bodies of work, “Down For the Day” and “A Further Shore.” Both series are part of larger cycle of projects that look at New York City’s intricate and complicated relationship with its waters: the beaches, bays, and rivers where its diverse citizenry comes in contact with nature and each other. While “Down For the Day” and “A Further Shore” frequently depict people engaging in leisure activities, those who labor on the water are also present, enabling the quest for respite, for a momentary paradise along our urban shorelines and waterways.
A Further Shore
Down For the Day
Object
Seals, Mister Softee, Beach Towels
Body of Water
Jamaica Bay, Pelham Bay, The Rockaways
About the Artist
Born in 1972 in Washington, D.C. Susannah Ray studied photography as an undergraduate at Princeton University and completed her MFA in 1997 at the School of Visual Arts MFA Program in Photography and Related Media. Her current project, “Down For the Day” was shown at the Works on Water/Underwater New York Residency Project Space on Governor’s Island in 2019. Her previous series, “A Further Shore,” was exhibited in 2017 at The Bronx Museum of the Arts and published by Hoxton Mini Press, East London, UK as New York Waterways. Susannah Ray has also had solo exhibitions at Bonni Benrubi Gallery and Albright College and been in numerous group exhibitions, notably at The Museum of the City of New York and The Queens Museum. Her photographs have been widely featured and reviewed in publications including: The New York Times, The New Yorker, The British Journal of Photography, The Surfer’s Journal, The Independent UK, and The Wall Street Journal. Susannah Ray is an adjunct Associate Professor of Photography at Hofstra. For more information and to contact: www.susannahray.com