023, Sara Silks

023 - Sara Silks is the twenty-third in an ongoing Bi-Monthly series publishing the work of emerging photographers.

“My photographic work begins with slowness — with looking, waiting, and allowing the image to form gradually. I’m drawn to the quiet edge of things: the way light hovers on a branch, how a shadow moves across a face, or how a single gesture can hold a sense of myth or memory. These moments are often subtle, almost invisible at first, but they stay with me until I find a way to bring them into form.

Process is not separate from meaning in my practice — it is how I come to understand what I’m seeing. I work with both analog and digital tools, often blending darkroom techniques with layered imagery. I’m interested in how light behaves through different materials, how an image can soften or distort through time, and how a photograph can hold something both tender and unresolved.

Figures, natural elements, and symbolic objects recur across my work — not to tell stories, but to create a sense of presence. I think of these images less as documents and more as emotional landscapes. They offer places to pause, to feel, to remember.

In making them, I try to stay open — to let the process guide me as much as I guide it. That openness is what I hope the viewer can feel: a moment suspended, attentive, and quietly alive.” - Sara Silks

Published by Setanta Books
Edition of 350
Softcover
48 pages
210 x 160 mm