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Born in 1980 in Amsterdam (The Netherlands).
Lives and works in Amsterdam.
Site personnel : www.sarahmeiherman.nl
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Sarah Mei Herman was born in Amsterdam in 1980. After studying Philosophy for one year, she studied Photography at the Royal Academy of Fine Art in The Hague, from which she received her BA in 2005. She recently completed her MA in Fine Art Photography at The Royal College of Art in London. She has shown work in various group‐shows in London, Amsterdam and Singapore. In 2010 her work was selected
for Foam Talent. Sarah Mei currently lives and works in Amsterdam. She is represented by Kahmann Gallery.
On her work, the artist says : « I am fascinated by relationships between people, the physical closeness between them or what sets them apart, and the nescessity of this physical proximity to others. The most fragile contact and elusive things between people often seem to exist beyond the reach of language. This is what I try to capture in my images. My work is about Thresholds and Transitions within and between people. The child on the threshold of the adult world, and the thresholds between individuals. Inextricably bound up with these thresholds, are the transitions in a human life.
For the series "First Loves" I made double portraits of boys and girls between the age of ten and twelve who were in a couple. I was interested in capturing something so vulnerable and fleeting: they belong together by dint of a agreement, but are unable to put this idea into practice, because they are still in their childhood. In most cases at this age this “being in a couple” only exists at school. Because I isolated them by photographing them in their home setting, they were dependent only on each other for the first time. »
Text by the artist
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