BIOGRAPHY

Fiona Galloway grew up in Aberdeen, Scotland. She received her MFA in Photography from the University of Edinburgh. In 2009, she moved to Sacramento California to act as artist in residence at the Verge Center for the Arts. Fiona also teaches photography at Sacramento State University.

ARTIST STATEMENT

My choice of subject comes from a place of intuition and is fueled by an impetuous desire to partake in the stories that unfold around me. I seek the unknown and I look for the light within the shadows, the stories that are not at first obvious and the uncommon in the common.

“I photograph people in their environments because I am curious of what lays behind their eyes, where they have been and where they hope to go. My photography evokes the passage of time.”

I use slow shutter speeds and double exposures to explore the nuances of movement and the modulation of time as it passes from past to present to future. Recently I have begun to work with landscapes, attempting to illustrate abstract, evocative scenery as a motif to epitomize the idea of imagined space, a reminder that what I create through the viewfinder is only real to me.