1958/1982/2012
When I saw Nancy Floyd's series Weathering Time submitted to this month's theme Archiving Time: Again & Legacy I knew that I wanted to highlight it. I can't think of better work that fits the theme more perfectly. This series gives new meaning to the idea of a photographer's life. Take a look! --Ashley Kauschinger, Founding Editor
The Month Dad Died, May 2002
Artist Bio
Nancy Floyd has been an exhibiting artist for over 35 years. She has received numerous grants and awards including a 2018 Aaron Siskind Photography Fellowship, 2016 CUE Art Foundation Fellowship, a 2015 Society for Photographic Education Future Focus Project Support Grant, and a 2014 John Gutmann Photography Fellowship Award. In 2017 Floyd was a Runner-up for the 2017 Aperture Portfolio Prize. In 2018 she was a finalist for The Print Center’s 93rd Annual International Competition. In 2019 she received a Contemporary Photography Honorable Mention from the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center and was shortlisted for the Hopper Prize. Temple University Press published her first book, She’s Got a Gun, in 2008.
Floyd’s work has been exhibited in numerous venues including Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR (forthcoming, July 2019); CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY; Whitespace, Atlanta, GA; Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta; Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, San Antonia, TX; Solomon Projects, Atlanta; Flux Projects, Atlanta; Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, Spain; the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center; White Columns, New York, NY; and the California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA. Her work is in the collection of the Center for Creative Photography, High Museum of Art and Lightwork.
Floyd holds a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin, an MA from Columbia College Chicago, and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. She is a Professor Emerita in the Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design at Georgia State University in Atlanta.
Nancy Floyd has been an exhibiting artist for over 35 years. She has received numerous grants and awards including a 2018 Aaron Siskind Photography Fellowship, 2016 CUE Art Foundation Fellowship, a 2015 Society for Photographic Education Future Focus Project Support Grant, and a 2014 John Gutmann Photography Fellowship Award. In 2017 Floyd was a Runner-up for the 2017 Aperture Portfolio Prize. In 2018 she was a finalist for The Print Center’s 93rd Annual International Competition. In 2019 she received a Contemporary Photography Honorable Mention from the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center and was shortlisted for the Hopper Prize. Temple University Press published her first book, She’s Got a Gun, in 2008.
Floyd’s work has been exhibited in numerous venues including Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR (forthcoming, July 2019); CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY; Whitespace, Atlanta, GA; Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta; Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, San Antonia, TX; Solomon Projects, Atlanta; Flux Projects, Atlanta; Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, Spain; the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center; White Columns, New York, NY; and the California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA. Her work is in the collection of the Center for Creative Photography, High Museum of Art and Lightwork.
Floyd holds a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin, an MA from Columbia College Chicago, and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. She is a Professor Emerita in the Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design at Georgia State University in Atlanta.
Moving 1983/1999/2018
Artist Statement
I have been photographing myself since 1982. If I fail to take a picture on a given day, I advance the film one frame so no image is recorded. This visual calendar consists of 2,500+ photographs that include my body from head to toe, as well as my environment.
On occasion, I insert digital reenactment files to contrast with specific images or add an old family photograph for more context.
Most often I’m by myself in these straightforward images, but sometimes I’m with family and friends. As time passes, births, deaths, celebrations, and bad days happen. Pets come and go, fashions and hairstyles evolve, typewriters, analog clocks, and telephones with cords disappear; film gives way to digital, and the computer replaces the darkroom.
Not only does Weathering Time chronicle my youth to the dawn of my old age, the images also reflect the experiences of my generation and underscore the cultural, technological, and physical changes that have occurred over the past 37 years.
I have been photographing myself since 1982. If I fail to take a picture on a given day, I advance the film one frame so no image is recorded. This visual calendar consists of 2,500+ photographs that include my body from head to toe, as well as my environment.
On occasion, I insert digital reenactment files to contrast with specific images or add an old family photograph for more context.
Most often I’m by myself in these straightforward images, but sometimes I’m with family and friends. As time passes, births, deaths, celebrations, and bad days happen. Pets come and go, fashions and hairstyles evolve, typewriters, analog clocks, and telephones with cords disappear; film gives way to digital, and the computer replaces the darkroom.
Not only does Weathering Time chronicle my youth to the dawn of my old age, the images also reflect the experiences of my generation and underscore the cultural, technological, and physical changes that have occurred over the past 37 years.
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