Bio
Gail Samuelson photographs events in her life, both quiet and profound: the landscape through which she walks (Beaver Dam, Sherborn MA); an on-going series of self-portraits; her father’s Alzheimer’s Disease (Down Hill All the Way); her breast surgery (My New Bra); her 26-year-old daughter’s return home (Jessie); and her series shot while riding Amtrak trains to NYC to visit her elderly aunt (Train Shots).
Her most recent self-portrait series, All Dressed up, has been exhibited in several galleries in 2013, including the Kiernan Gallery in Lexington, VA (she was awarded Juror’s Choice award and featured on the gallery’s blog), PhotoPlace Gallery in Middlebury, VT, the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA, and most recently, she received honorable mention in the Cambridge Art Association’s Red Biennial competetion for her self-portrait, My father Sinclair She also received a prize for her cell phone photography from the Texas Photographic Society.
Gail Samuelson is a portrait and event photographer, managing her own photography business in Sherborn, MA. She studied photography with Stephen Tourlentes, Frank Gohlke, and David Hilliard at workshops at the Massachusetts College of Art and the Photographic Resource Center in Boston, MA. She also studied at the New England School of Photography, the Art Institute of Boston, and at Photography Atelier at Lesley University and at the Griffin Museum of Photography. She has an MBA from Simmons Graduate School of Management.
