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by Sarah Mei Herman (Author)
Photographer Sarah Mei Herman was 20 when her half-brother Jonathan was born in 2001. When he was a small child she began to photograph him regularly alongside her father, Julian. The images in her forthcoming book--Julian & Jonathan--span more than 20-years and document Jonathan's visible growth from child to adult, the steadier changes in Julian and Herman's own journey as an artist, daughter, and half-sister.
Author Biography
Sarah Mei Herman (b. 1980, NL) holds a BA in Photography from The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, and an MA in Fine Art Photography from London's Royal College of Art. Throughout her practice, Herman explores relationships, loneliness, longing, intimacy and the human urge for physical proximity. Probing gently at the things that bridge and divide her subjects, her projects pay close attention to the vulnerability of transitory life stages - from the trials and fleeting beauty of adolescence to the grey areas between friendship and romance. At times, Herman's position is that of a relative outsider: she comes to know her subjects through the act of portraying them. Elsewhere, Herman's placement is closer to the story, training her lens - for instance - on the complex dynamics of her own family.
