Tabitha Soren

Former MTV journalist Tabitha Soren has spent the last 25 years building a body of psychological works. Tabitha, ever intrigued by fate's ability to unhinge us, photographs how we respond to change and upheaval and sees art as a means to explore our interior life. Another pervasive theme is the loss of human connection, displaced by technology and virtual communication.

TABITHA'S CAREER: FROM MTV TO THE NEW YORK TIMES

Tabitha began her career by appearing in a Beastie Boys music video at the ripe age of 19. She then moved on to host an MTV campaign entitled Choose or Lose, which encouraged young folk to be politically engaged and exercise their right to vote. Throughout her career, she has also been led to interview individuals such as Hilary Clinton, Anita Hill and Tupac Shakur.

After working in television and film, Tabitha Soren went on to study photography at Standford University. Gaining an almost instantaneous popularity, her works have shown in The New York Times, Sports Illustrated and Vanity Fair.

WHAT INSPIRES TABITHA SOREN?

The messiness and unpredictability of life are central to Tabitha's portraits, a matter she documents with equal sensitivity, scrutiny and awe. Tabitha is famously concerned with what human beings can overcome, a fact that convinced The New York Times Magazine to commission her to shoot the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Many of her works also explore and reiterate the many struggles we experience within our heads. The figurative series Surface Tension, for example, endeavours to expose the impact of technological dominion on the human spirit. Focusing on touch and texture, particularly the fingerprints we leave behind, the photographer intervenes with the cold and disembodied relationships we conduct with our digital devices.

SOREN'S EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS

You can find Tabitha's photography in many private collections and public museums, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Getty Museum, Harvard Art Museums, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the George Eastman Museum of Photography, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and the Cleveland Museum of Art, among others. Her first monograph, Fantasy Life, was published by Aperture Books in 2017. Tabitha's book, Surface Tension, was released with RVB Books, Paris.

HOW TO ACQUIRE TABITHA SOREN PHOTOGRAPHY

If you want to add a piece of Tabitha Soren's artwork to your collection, Rise Art has curated a selection of artwork by this renowned American artist. Available for purchase immediately, her photographs are limited edition prints and are all hand-signed by the artist.