Susan Lapides

Susan Lapides is a photographic artist who creates time-based projects focusing on adolescence and place. She employs landscape and portraiture as a means to examine social, cultural and community issues.

She received a BA in Art History from Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts. As a professional editorial photographer known for her versatility, Susan was assigned to photograph travel stories, documentary style journalism and portraits of people from all walks of life, from luminaries like President Barack Obama to dairy farmers. She worked for many clients, such as Smithsonian Magazine, Life, Time, Forbes, Yankee, and the New York Times, as well as non-profits like the Trust for Public Land, UNICEF, Harvard University's American Repertory Theater, and the Worcester Art Museum. She received many awards from ASMP (American Society of Media Photographers) and Studio Magazine.

Lapides has exhibited her fine art photography in numerous solo exhibitions nationally and internationally including Sunbury Shores, the Saint John Art Centre and Beaverbrook Gallery (all in New Brunswick, Canada), The Curated Fridge, Griffin Museum, (both in Boston MA) and Fraction Magazine. Her work is also in group exhibits including Foley Gallery (NYC), Newport Art Museum (Rhode Island), Brand Library and Art Center (Los Angeles), and Oceanside Museum (San Diego), as well as a variety of juried shows.

She was a 2019 Critical Mass Top 200 Finalist, the 2018 Beth Block Juried Membership Honoraria from the Houston Center for Photography and was featured on the 2020 Fence in Winchester, MA. Lapides is a member of Memory as a Verb, a collective of eleven women photographers.

Her award-winning photographs are in the Fidelity Corporate Art Collection, Boston, MA and Cooke Aquaculture, in New Brunswick, Canada as well as other private and public collections. She resides in Boston, Massachusetts, USA and St. George, New Brunswick, Canada.

Artist Statement

St George: Ebb & Flow is my tribute to the residents of a rural community on the Bay of Fundy, home to the highest tides in the world. St. George, New Brunswick in Eastern Canada still has no traffic light. The age-old fishing industries of sardines and lobster and the newer farm raised salmon rapidly reinvent themselves to keep pace with climate change and global demand.

The short maritime summers with long evenings are cherished as they have been for generations. Light bends, time slows, families and friends gather around bonfires as the sun sets, and the stars alight. These are the moments between the memories that feel iconic to the maritime experience: the deep connection to the natural world, the rhythmic dance of the tides, and the mesmerizing, shifting beauty.

I extend my deepest gratitude to the residents of St. George for opening your doors and sharing your stories. You made it possible for me to be a chronicler of the ebb and flow of your hometown.

- Susan Lapides