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Sarah Hadley has had a
special
connection with Venice for most of her life. She spent her childhood
living in
a replica of a Venetian palace, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in
Boston,
where her father was the director. For eighteen years, she was
surrounded by paintings
of the likes of Rembrandt, Titan, Whistler and Sargent. In these years,
her
family made frequent trips to Venice, and she ended up living there in
her 20s.
These
photographs were made
over a four-year
period from 2006-2009. They have a dreamy, surreal feel achieved
through the use of various lenses and Photoshop. She says, “I see a
city clinging to a
bygone
era and splendor, and I see a Venetian way of life that is rapidly
changing
while its foundations are eroding.” Although the images are
extraordinarily
beautiful, to Ms. Hadley they reflect such events as the sudden death
of her
late father along with the “feelings of loss of my childhood home, and
about
the fragility and impermanence of all things.”
Lost Venice has been shown
at the
Griffin Museum of Photography in Boston, the Loyola Museum of Art in
Chicago,
the Lishui Photo Festival in China, the Worldwide Photography Biennial
in
Buenos Aires and the Fotofever Art Fair in Paris. It has also been
published in
magazines and online blogzines.
Ms. Hadley studied art history and
photography at Georgetown University and at the Corcoran College of
Art. Her
work has been frequently exhibited, published and collected in the U.S.
and
abroad.
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