Samantha Sutcliffe
Samantha Sutcliffe lives and works in New York City. She teaches at The International Center of Photography and The Bushwick Community Darkroom. Her first documentary “Under the Shadows of…”, about a trans female sex worker who de-transitions after four years of being on hormones, was shortlisted for The Hopper Prize and published in the Fotofilmic JRNL 10 edited by Paul Schiek. Her work is shot on film and printed in the darkroom. In 2019 she wrote a short story titled Vodka Vida Raging Bull, about a thirteen year old Catholic School girl from the suburbs of New Jersey who suffers from Borderline Personality Disorder, that was published by Uncensored New York and turned into an exhibition at The Royal Society of American Art. She was the recipient of the 2021 City Artist Corps Grant, a 2021 Fotofilmic Scholarship, a 2021 Hopper Prize Finalist, a 2021 Lucie Foundation Notions of Home Prize Winner, a 2018 Medfoto artist in residence and a recipient of a 2018 International Center of Photography Director’s Cut Scholarship.
