Paris Photo LA : Introducing !

Shannon Foreman is a student of The San Francisco Art Institute, California.

These photographs are part of a larger series entitled Please Write Soon. I began the series last year after I found out that my mother was dying. I have a collection of letters that she wrote to me between  1995 to 2012 while she was locked up in various rehabilitation clinics, psychiatric facilities and jail. Forming a kind of ritual, I would re-read these letters and then photograph at the Golden Gate Bridge. 


Trying to figure out how I could feel her loss so keenly while she was still here. Now that her physical body is failing, and her death is more certainty than possibility, I’ve experienced a renewed sense of urgency to confront our shared history.
I want to tell a new story from the old history. I want to figure this all out before she’s gone. My photographs are part of this process, as well as a belated response to a woman I left behind. My own letter, if you will. So, why the Golden Gate Bridge? From the first time I saw it, I felt both seduced and repelled, terrified and fascinated (…). The Bridge is an incredibly beautiful place, but it’s also ugly and full of ghosts. And like all bridges, it connects two pieces of land that will never meet.

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