Sarah Hadley

Story Lines

Story Lines explores the female interior landscape, and the desires and dreams we keep buried deep inside. By altering reality through collage, my work explores the poetry of the hidden andintangible parts of life, and our universal desire for connection. I use backdrops of sunlight,shadow, architecture and nature to create illusionary settings in order to isolate the women and their interior life. These intimate cinematic stories play with the limits of reality and fiction and, in their ambiguity, reveal a sense of mystery and wonder. My first love was cinema and especially the French New Wave films of the 60’s, which were shot in black and white on the street and often portrayed the subconscious thoughts and feelings of  ordinary women. In Story Lines, I blur personal narratives by creating enigmaticstories of women caught in a moment of reflection or transformation. My collages also pay homage to the surrealists who first employed the technique of conjoining unrelated images to create startling and thought-provoking connections. ********************************************* Born and raised in Boston, Hadley had a very unusual home life.When she was just four years old, her family moved to the fourth floor of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (where her father was the Director) and she was fortunate to spend the next 18 years in a Venetian palazzo which housed the artwork of Rembrandt, Titian, Whistler, Sargent, Michelangelo, Manet and many more. Hadley earned degrees in Art History and Italian from Georgetown University, and Photography from the Corcoran College of Art. She spent time in her 20s working at the Peggy Guggenheim Collections and the Biennale in Venice, Italy. She also worked at the National Gallery of Art, the Library of Congress and as a photojournalist for a small town newspaper in Virginia, before moving to Chicago in 1996 where she eventually founded the Filter Photo Festival. Hadley’s work has been exhibited internationally at Fotofever in Paris, the Porto Photo Festival in Portugal, the Worldwide Photography Biennial in Buenos Aires, the Ballarat Festival in Australia, the Lishui Photo Festival in China, Museo de la Naturaleza in Spain as well as at prominent museums, galleries and Universities in the US including: Afterimage Gallery (Dallas), the Florida Museum of Photography (Tampa), the Griffin Museum of Photography (Boston), the Robin Rice Gallery (NYC), Boston University (Boston), Washington & Lee University (St. Louis) and Lake Forest College (Lake Forest, IL). Afterimage Gallery show from 2018: Lost Venice

Chance Encounter, 2014

Archival ink pigment print, image size 9½ x 20 inches (24 x 51 cm.), edition of 11: $1,300
15 x 30 inches (38 x 76 cm.), edition of 7: $1,800




Climbing Mountains, 2021

Archival ink pigment print, image size 13½ x 20 inches (34 x 51 cm.), edition of 11: $1,200
20 x 30 inches (51 x 76 cm.), edition of 7: $1,650
28 x 40 inches (71 x 102 cm.). edition of 3: $2,400




Looking for Answers, 2020

Archival ink pigment print, image size 13 x 19 inches (33 x 48 cm.), edition of 11: $1,200
20 x 30 inches (51 x 76 cm.), edition of 7: $1,650
26.5 x 40 (67 x 102 cm.), edition of 3: $2,400




What I Remember, 2017

Archival ink pigment print, image size 16 x 21 inches (41 x 53 cm.), edition of 11: $1,200
23 x 28 inches (58 x 71 cm.), edition of 7: $1,550




Crossing Paris, 2018

Archival ink pigment print, image size 13 x 19 inches (33 x 48 cm.), edition of 11: $1,400
20 x 30 inches (51 x 76 cm.), edition of 7: $1,850
26½ x 40 inches (67 x 102 cm.). edition of 3: $2,400




Turning from the Light, 2020

Archival ink pigment print, image size 14½ x 34 inches (37 x 86 cm.), edition of 7: $1,450
20 x 46 inches (51 x 117 cm.), edition of 3: $2,000




Escape, 2018

Archival ink pigment print, image size 22 x 14 inches (56 x 36 cm.), edition of 11: $1,200
30 x 20 inches (76 x 51 cm.), edition of 7: $1,650




Paris Story, 2020

Archival ink pigment print, image size 15 x 30 inches (38 x 76 cm.), edition of 7: $1,650
22 x 44 inches (56 x 112 cm.). edition of 3: $2,400




Interior Staircases, 2020

Archival ink pigment print, image size 15 x 15 inches (38 x 38 cm.), edition of 7: $1,000




Inner Web, 2021

Archival ink pigment print, image size 13 x 21 inches (33 x 53 cm.), edition of 11: $1,200
20 x 30 inches (51 x 76 cm.), edition of 7: $1,650




Italian Street Reflection, 2020

Archival ink pigment print, image size 26 x 22 inches (66 x 56 cm.), edition of 7: $1,650
35 x 30 inches (89 x 76 cm.), edition of 3: $2,400




The Depths, 2014

Archival ink pigment print, image size 13 x 21 inches (33 x 53 cm.), edition of 7: $1,200
20 x 32 inches (51 x 81 cm.), edition of 7: $1,550




Scratched, 2011

Archival ink pigment print, image size 22 x 14 inches (56 x 36 cm.), edition of 11: $1,000
30 x 20 inches (76 x 51 cm.), edition of 7: $1,500

Evening Light, 2021

Archival ink pigment print, image size 14 x 31 inches (36 x 79 cm.), edition of 7: $1,650
20 x 44 inches (51 x 112 cm.), edition of 3: $2,400

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