Suzanne Saroff
Self-taught in digital photography and lighting techniques. Current Base: Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Featured in The New York Times , Aperture , British Journal of Photography , It’s Nice That
Unlike Photoshop compositing, her distortions are . This gives the work a tangible, scientific quality—like a lab experiment repurposed for visual poetry. The viewer is constantly aware of the physical presence of glass, liquid, and light. suzanne saroff
A sub-series that introduced —scissors, combs, lightbulbs, measuring spoons. Here, the tension becomes industrial vs. organic. A metal spoon bends like a stem; a glass lightbulb becomes a translucent fruit.
Suzanne Saroff is a New York–based photographer and director. Born in Montana and raised between rural landscapes and urban environments, her work sits at the intersection of . She gained widespread recognition through her ongoing series Perspective (2016–present), which uses refraction through water-filled glassware to distort and reimagine everyday objects—most famously flowers, fruit, and vegetables. Self-taught in digital photography and lighting techniques
Suzanne Saroff is a New York-based photographer and director known for her experimental approach to still life, particularly her use of water and glass to create surreal, distorted imagery. Origins: Born in February 1993 in Missoula, Montana.
Currently, she shoots with a Fujifilm GFX 100s , a high-resolution medium format camera that captures intense detail and texture. This gives the work a tangible, scientific quality—like
Fashion editorial work for clients like Vogue Italia , Dior , and Hermès . Saroff applied her refraction method to —a leather glove becomes three hands, a scarf wraps through a glass cylinder. This bridged her fine art practice with commercial work seamlessly.
She often builds technical sets in her studio only to break creative "rules" to see what emerges.