“I’ve always been in search of that defining moment where I feel really connected to someone,” says Sam Penn. “Whether that is a lover, a friend, or even myself. It’s an obsessive practice.” Across photographs of landscapes, portraits, or bodies in closeup, Penn takes a relational approach to image making, allowing for her intimate and intuitive compositions.

Sam Penn (b. 1998, Oklahoma City, OK) is a photographer based in New York, NY. Her work has been shown at Galerie Balice Hertling, Paris and OCDChinatown, NY, and featured in Artforum and Interview Magazine. She received a BA in film studies from The New School.