Sal Taylor Kydd

My work draws strongly on the landscape, focusing on domesticity in conversation with the natural world. I am attracted to the objects and artifacts that we surround ourselves with, as memory-laden emblems of our history and signifiers of the passing of time; how a sense of place can be embedded with personal history.

I focus on the photographic object, the print, or the artist book as a keepsake of my experience in the world. It provides me with a very tangible and tactile way of recording my discoveries and holding onto the memories I am trying to preserve. Photographing gives me a way to capture my impressions, and writing and making books and objects lets me distill and reexamine that experience.

I work in a variety of media, particularly alternative processes where the hand of the artist plays a strong role. Working in photopolymer gravure and platinum palladium gives my prints an aesthetic that speaks to the echo of memory, in a work that cements fleeting impressions in the here and now.

Maine-based photographic artist and writer Sal Taylor Kydd uses various photographic media in a personal narrative that explores themes around memory and belonging; combining her poetry with alternative processes of photography and object-making.

Taylor Kydd’s fine art photographs have been exhibited throughout the country and internationally, including Barcelona, San Miguel De Allende, Portland, Boston and Los Angeles; and she has been featured in numerous publications, including Don’t Take Pictures Magazine, Lenscratch, Diffusion Annual and The Hand magazine.

She has self-published a number of books combining her poetry with her photographs. Her books are in private and museum collections throughout the country including The Getty Museum, Bowdoin College, The Peabody Essex Museum and the Maine Women Writer’s Collection at the University of New England. Taylor Kydd’s latest book “Yesterday”, produced by Datz Press, is a limited edition book of poems and photographs that explores our sense of loss around the pandemic of 2020.

Taylor Kydd is also a veteran workshop leader and educator and has led workshops and conducted portfolio reviews throughout the country and internationally with Maine Media, Santa Fe Workshops, Palm Bea...

SOLO/TWO PERSON SHOWS

2022, Fox Talbot Museum , England, Janus Rising
2022, Cary Arts Center, NC - Touchstones
2022, The Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA - Touchstones
2022, Page Gallery ME, Touchstones
2022, A Smith Gallery, San Antonio, TX - Touchstones
2021, The Page Gallery, Camden ME, Solo Show for Yesterday.
2020, The Page Gallery, Landfall.
2019, The Griffin Museum of Photography, Boston, MA, Janus Rising
2019, The Photographic Gallery, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, Janus Rising
2019, Gallery 169, Los Angeles, CA, Janus Rising
2018, Panopticon Gallery, Boston, MA, Recollections
2018, North Haven Gallery, North Haven, ME, Winterhaven
2018, Zoot Gallery, Camden, ME, Hiraeth
2017, Kingman Gallery, Deer Isle, ME, Hiraeth
2017 Pho Pa Gallery, Portland, ME, Momentary Certainties
2017, Pascal Hall, Rockport, ME, Unspoken
2016, Pascal Hall, Rockport, ME, Keepsakes
2016, Gallery 169, Los Angeles, CA, Origins

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022, Page Gallery, ME - Home Group Show
2022, Cove St Gallery, Portland, ME Maine Media Faculty Exhbition
2022, Page Gallery, ME Garden Group Show
2021, High Mountain Hall Holiday Show, Camden, ME
2021, Davis Norton Gallery, 12 Annual Photobook Show
2021, Michael Good Galle...