As an image maker working in a documentary-informed practice, Richardson strives to unlearn, break open and find new ways of creating images that interrogate collaboration and photographic relationships in the context of the body, trauma, care and deviancy. 

They have been a fellow at the UnionDocs Collaborative Fellowship, Fellowship Program for Art and Theory Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen (2022), and has exhibited domestically and internationally.

Sam Richardson is a photographer, and also works in video, sound and writing. She is based in Los Angeles, CA.

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