Each year, Victoria Sambunaris structures her life around a photographic journey through the American landscape. Using a large format 5x7 camera she searches for the intersection between the natural and the manmade. In her own words she has “an unrelenting curiosity to understand the American landscape and our place within it.” Her work has brought her to the farthest corners of Alaska and across the entire length of the US-Mexico border. A recent project has focused on the intersection of geology, industry and culture encompassing the petro-chemical and shipping industries around the Gulf Coast. Sambunaris’ monograph Taxonomy of a Landscape was published by Radius Books in 2014 and was one of Time Magazine’s best photo books of the year. She earned her MFA from Yale in 1999 and is represented by Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York.
