Shannon Taggart is a freelance photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. She received her BFA in Applied Photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including Blind Spot, Time and Newsweek just to name a few. She has shown at Photoworks in Brighton, England, The Photographic Resource Center in Boston, Redux Pictures in NYC and the Stephen Cohen Gallery in LA. Her work has been recognized by the Inge Morath Foundation, American Photography and the Alexia Foundation for World Peace, among others.
Regarding her common focus on spiritual and supernatural themes, Taggart states: “I am completely fascinated by how the individual experiences the spiritual uniquely. And that such experiences can be so profoundly different, deeply interior, and utterly mysterious. I seek to make visible — via the camera — a metaphor for what is happening within the psychological space surrounding the person, the ritual or the actuality of the event. Also, there is just something totally hypnotic about witnessing the attempt to bring something abstract, like belief or faith, into the physical.”
