Scarlett Hendricks

February 8 – 25, 2022
Part of a larger project-in-progress, these works express Hendricks’s belief in the possibility of photographic portraiture capturing a moment of insight into someone's spirit and the possibility that through photography we might imaginatively interact with that person over and over through time. 

Like my namesake - and probably most Southerners - I was shaped early in life by a strong sense of family, especially family stories and traditions. As a young girl, I was drawn to photography as a way to capture and express those family feelings. I was inspired particularly by this beautiful photographic portrait of my paternal grandmother, taken in the late 1920s, when she was roughly the age of most Centenary students. Her portrait spoke to me of a world of familial connection that could also be aesthetically beautiful.

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