Sam Richardson

Sam Richardson is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in photography, as well as video, sound, and writing. They are based in Los Angeles, CA. 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, and care. They utilize their experience as a Crisis Counselor to survivors in the ER of New York City, abolitionism, and personal history to enter their work with a practice of care and investigation into a personal and shared experience. Sam’s work has been shown at Studio Voltaire in London, ACUD Galerie in Berlin, Metrograph NYC, and Bard College in upstate New York. Sam has been an Artist-in-Residence at Room and Board and UnionDocs (UNDO) in NYC and has collaborated on organizations and projects such as JusticeLA, California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP), Bard Prison Initiative, and the Women’s Prison Association.

As an Artist in Residence at Urbano Project, Sam will work with Youth Artists through “When We See Each Other” on ways to produce art within practices of care, engage in the history of photographic collaboration, and envision how they and their communites would like to be represented at this current moment.