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Lynch received an MFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts, New York, where she studied with Joel Sternfeld and Stephen Shore. In 2003, she completed the Master Class in Photography, a one-on-one tutorial with Shore at Bard College and went on to study perceptual drawing and painting at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, which has subsequently informed much of her photographic practice. \r\n\r\nLynch’s work investigates the relationship between humans and their surroundings, and in doing so, comments on contemporary social issues. She explores themes of absence, presence, transcendence and the life cycle through the landscapes and waterways of the United States, Mexico and Spain. In her most recent series, ‘Another Way of Looking at Love’, Lynch uses nature as a metaphor to consider the emotional, social and environmental consequences of disconnection, and simultaneously, our inherent need for connection. \r\n\r\nFrom 2015 to 2018, Lynch photographed foliage and flora surrounding her home in the Catskills in the New York State. She considered the natural world from the idea that humans have an innate need to connect not only with each other, but with all living things.  Lynch often works with a large format 8x10 camera in order to capture what she calls ‘still lives in the landscapes that combine similar and disparate visual and biological elements’. She identified details in nature that form natural geometric shapes and connections, and photographed plants such as barberry, goldenrod, pokeweed and pine trees.\r\n\r\nFor Lynch, this series ‘was born of awe for the power of nature, and seeks to reimagine our connection to one another, to the planet and to the generative possibilities of the moment.’  These photographs demonstrate Lynch’s ability to create poetic and moving photographs of nature, and encourage viewers to reflect on their relationship to themselves and the natural world at this pivotal moment in our environmental, political and shared human history.\r\n","physicalDescription":"Colour photograph showing trees and shrubbery by Janelle Lynch.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Janelle Lynch","id":"AUTH356560"},"association":{"text":"photographer","id":"x43821"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"","id":""}],"techniques":[],"materialsAndTechniques":"Archival pigment print","categories":[],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"DOP","id":"THES291628"},"images":["2023NJ0760"],"imageResolution":"low","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLF","id":"THES49656"},"free":"","case":"X","shelf":"963","box":"B"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Photographs","id":"AAT46300"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"2017","earliest":"2017-01-01","latest":"2017-12-31"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Gift of Janelle Lynch","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"50","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"40","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Photograph from the series 'Another Way of Looking at Love', 2015-2018 by Janelle Lynch","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["PH.423-2021"],"accessionNumberNum":"423","accessionNumberPrefix":"PH","accessionYear":2021,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-12-01","recordCreationDate":"2020-02-14","availableToBook":false}}