Grief and Freedom is my latest photography project.
All the photographs were taken in Brighton, Hove, Gatwick and Lewes after the death of my parents.
My mother died in December 2023, and my father in March 2025.
Almost everyone becomes an orphan one day.
As an adult orphan, I have a different flavour to my life now.I feel fundamentally changed.
I would like this project to resonate with anyone who has been through the same experience.
©SAM CRAWLEY
©SAM CRAWLEY
Ultimately, it is a meditation on the contradictory sensations that I felt, and still feel.
There is a space between how we live in this material world, and our emotional life, where we have to incorporate big experiences, often alone.I hope you can feel a sense of peace and connection as you look at my photographs.
If you can, please visit the exhibition in person.In my solo shows, you will have the opportunity to write a testimony of your own experience, if there is something you would like to share.
I am gathering these testimonies for a future art project.
Upcoming dates
Artwave Lewes , The Blue Shed, venue XX, first three weekends in September 2026
Stable Gallery, Paddock Art Studios, Paddock Lane, Lewes, 25-27 September 2026 (solo show)
The Fishing Quarter Gallery , 201 Kings Road Arches, Brighton, 8 - 14 March 2027 (solo show)
If you would like to buy any of my photographs or commission my work, please get in touch.
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