As a fine art photographer based in Vancouver, Canada, Shira Gold seeks to isolate images of stillness and beauty from complicated and painful moments. “My art is alert to the discomfort we all face in our daily lives,” she explains, “but I want to turn pain and angst on its side to discover the beauty that accompanies our struggles.” Drawing on her relationships as a daughter and a mother, Shira’s work explores experiences of grief, embodiment, discovery, and wonder.
Shira’s most recent body of work is an eight-piece series entitled “Good Grief,” a collection of landscape portraits that serve as a visual dissertation of her movements through loss. This work has earned her recognition in the Lensculture Art Photography Awards (Finalist), the 13th and 14th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards (Honourable Mention), the Fine Art Photo Awards (Nominee) and the Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series (Semi-finals)
Shira’s work has been exhibited in several brick and mortar galleries in Canada, Italy, Greece, Spain and the United States.
In her mysteriously-lit “terrariums of grief”, the natural landscape becomes a symbol for the the complicated process of mourning, as the photographer searches for a way to deal with losing her mother.
