The Photographic Performance was created to feature the works of artist with completed bodies of work and a strong narrative. Leanne Trivett S.’s exhibition Navigating in Traffic is the second of four performances to be exhibited during 2025. Leeanne’s exhibition is discussed in this GalleryTalk.

Artist Statement

I am a fine art photographer using the lens as a mirror and a map – exploring identity, emotion, and transformation through fragmented narratives of the self.  My work moves through self-portraiture, abstraction, and experimental florals, where the self is never fixed, but continually reimagined.

With roots in theatre and vocal performance, my images speak with a performative language – one that holds tension between what is seen and what is felt.  I’m drawn to liminal spaces, where presence meets pause, where an image feels both deliberate and instinctive.  It’s in these in-between moments that something raw and real begins to surface.

Self-portraiture is at the heart of my practice and I am drawn to transformation.  By turning inward, I engage with an evolving inner terrain – resilience, grief, vulnerability, and growth.  These aren’t just portraits, but emotional landscapes.

In Navigating Traffic, a self-portrait series, I trace the arc of healing amid the relentless motion of life.  Each image captures a moment of reckoning – a near-collision, a sudden detour, an intersection demanding pause.  Using blur, layering, ICM, and multiple exposures, I disrupt clarity in favor of sensation.  The result is a moving map of disorientation and renewal – visual metaphors that hold the weight of emotional truth.

At its core, my work is about finding one’s way – through chaos, through stillness, through the layers of who we have been and who we’re becoming. It’s a bridge from my interior world to yours, a quiet invitation: to pause, to feel, and maybe, to recognize a piece of yourself within the frame.

Leeanne Trivett S., 2025

Bio

Leanne Trivett S. is an award winning photographer and visual artist using her personal photographs to explore experimental self-portraiture, florals, and the emotional abstract.

She graduated with a BFA in Theatre from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in NY, NY.  Her background in musical theatre and her experience performing as a professional singer have inspired her creation of characters and self-expression through images and photography.  She is best known for her colorful and current self-portraits and her work with florals. Leanne’s award winning artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally in venues like the Los Angeles Center for Photography, the Griffin Museum of Photography in Boston, CPA in Carmel, CA, KFF FotoFest 2024 in Karuizawa, Japan, Millepiani Gallery in Rome Italy, BRAHM Museum in Blowing Rock, NC, PH21 Gallery in Budapest, Fotonostrum Gallery in Barcelona, Spain and others. Her work has been published and can be seen on the cover and in several issues of Art Ascent International Magazine, Humana Obscura, Monochromica, Inside Sacramento, ARTDOC Magazine winning the Silver Award for her Florals, feature and cover in SHOTS magazine, cover of Dodho Magazine  with interview, in Barcelona and recognized for Monochrome, Color, Portrait, and Fine Art Awards in 2022, 2023, 2024, interviewed and featured in for Women United ART MAGAZINE and a solo show, published in several editions of Black & White Magazine, and in multiple special edition exhibition books.  She was chosen as the winner of the EMERGE 2024 Fellowship Award and Winner in Portfolio Platform 2024/2025, and has done solo shows featuring her project Pisces Dipped in Fantasy, winner and Honorable Mention for The 18th, 20th, and 23rd Annual Julia Margaret Cameron Awards for Women Photographers in Barcelona Spain for 2022, 2023, and 2024, Refocus Award for COLOR in Conceptual Photography, placed second in People and Portraits for Digital Photo 2022, received honorable mention in the ND Awards, and many more.  She is currently teaching at Santa Fe Workshops, Chicago Botanic Garden, Pacific Northwest Art School on Whidbey Island near Seattle, and giving Art Talks on Zoom in such places as the UK and Chicago. She spends her free time traveling and creating in her artist studio near Asheville, NC. All of her imagery comes from photos she takes with her cameras, and she often uses creative techniques like blur, ICM, layering, and multiple exposures in and out of camera for her work.

Directors’ Statement

We have watched Leanne’s growth as a photographer over the past few years. Her previous color work and self-portraiture are well conceived and beautifully constructed. However, we think this body of work, Navigating in Traffic, shows her growth as a visual storyteller. Her choice of black and white to dramatically and successfully portray emotion absolutely displays her maturation as an artist.

The addition of the hand or hands consistently reaching in the images adds visual consistency and emotion, suggesting a theme or story, drawing the viewer into a narrative of the images. The circle motif effectively added throughout the work serves as an, almost subliminal, element that adds to the unity of the work and another layer of latent meaning.

Early man painted his or her hands in caves across the world. Was it a search for identity or a statement of identity? We imagine Leanne as having kinship with our long-ago ancestors.

Thank you Leanne.

Amanda Smith and Kevin Tully
July, 2025

website: leannetrivettsphotography.com
instagram:  @leannerockstar

link to online exhibition