Project Space Residency

Lianne Milton (PA)

June 16 – July 14, 2027

Artist Statement

My practice combines traditional and lyrical documentary photography with community collaboration, archival research, and oral histories to explore representation, intergenerational memory, and human rights in postcolonial contexts. With two decades of experience photographing in Southeast Asia, Latin America, and the United States, I work at the intersection of visual anthropology and feminist geography. I investigate how place-based narratives are created, remembered, and used, especially in regions impacted by colonial violence and resource extraction. My methodology integrates collaborative journalism, historical imagery, and trauma-informed visual research to examine how cultural narratives, including mythology and family memory, influence patterns of violence and resistance across generations. Working across documentary, landscape, portraiture, and archival imagery, I focus on how geographic, mythological, and social systems shape women’s experiences of place, body, and agency.

Bio

For more than two decades, Lianne has photographed in Latin America and Southeast Asia for international news journals, travel magazines, and NGOs. From 2013 to 2019, she lived in Brazil, where her photography brought global attention to the Zika crisis, environmental justice, and social issues. Her work has been recognized and exhibited by the Center of Photography at Woodstock, IWMF Fellowship, National Press Photographers Foundation, Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, Yves Rocher Foundation, Photo Festival La Gacilly, and Visa Pour L’Image. Lianne also served as a Sony Global Imaging Ambassador in South America. Currently, she is a teaching artist and adjunct photography faculty member in Philadelphia. Lianne continues her long-form photographic projects in both Brazil and the United States.

Project Space Residencies are supported by The New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, The Joy of Giving Something Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and Monroe County, NY. Photography-based artists participating in the program receive support from the Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation.