Sasha Phyars-Burgess, a photographer living and working in the Lehigh Valley who describes her practice as inclusive, “I don’t treat the people who I photographs as subject or disassociated objects outside of me. There is always a moment were we must acknowledge each other. Me, as someone who is takes, and them, as someone who gives, as well as someone who is allowing something to be taken.” She says of her photograph At the Bus Stop, Allentown “I knew this person for 5 minutes. But we both acknowledged, to an extent, that he wanted to be photographed in that moment. This consensus is necessary, and besides for my visceral want to photograph him, I am glad he allowed me to do so and was aware that his image is important.”
Last updated: Feb 24, 2016