Sam Angel Photography Sam Angel Photography

Statements

some say give me silver
2025
some say give me silver is a handmade artist book featuring a poem and a series of photographs exploring the artist's experience of her father developing stage four lung cancer and her newly formed relationship with time. Angel weaves a visual narrative around nature’s cyclical transitions while witnessing her father's personal confrontation with his own.


Moths in Flight, Wetplate
Moths in Flight is an ongoing series which uses long exposures to record moths and their flight patterns. 


A Visual Inventory
2025
A Visual Inventory is a collection of photographs attempting to create a record of one's meaningful moments through lyrical photographs.


Migrate
2024
Migrate is a handmade photography book created from imagery taken of purple martins murmurations and migrating patterns as they passed through Nashville, TN between 2020 -2023.


September Wild
2024
September Wild is a book (some might call it an envelope) of photographs taken during walks among the thousands of yellow wildflowers (in bloom during September) along the Shelby Bottoms Greenway in Nashville, TN.


Peeler
2020-2021
While walking greenways and trails we often experience quiet fleeting encounters in these open spaces. During the COVID pandemic, I began to acknowledge these encounters were where most of my social interactions occurred. In November of 2020, I began to carry a 4x5 large format film camera to photograph portraits of those I encountered during my routine walks at Peeler Park in Madison, TN. This project serves as an attempt to build a sense of community through the act of engagement with this type of photography and documenting those who visit the park. The project explores vulnerability in asking a person to take time for a portrait, navigating the fears of social distancing, and honoring the spaces of subjectivity. Some encounters are with strangers, others are weekly regulars, some from the Peeler Park Airfield and when no one is encountered, the trails, greenway and wildlife become the focused subjects.
This project was a one time recipient of a Madison on My Mind project grant from Metro Arts in Nashville, supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.