“Control and chance are big themes in all my work,” says Tabitha Soren. The artist is trying to make images she’s never seen before.
“The act of photographing is a response to how I attempt to consciously manage the uncontrollable possibilities that exist in life. When I’m shooting, I’m not just accepting of imperfection. I’m looking for it,” she told 48hills.
Experimenting within the medium of photography, she changes materials, cameras, and subject matter often and says life’s unpredictability is central to her creative process.
Soren spent her youth moving around the world in an Air Force family, and has lived in three countries and 11 states. She spent her young adulthood in New York, graduating from NYU in 1989, then moved to Palo Alto for a fellowship at Stanford from 1997-’98. She found a way to live in the Bay Area permanently, in Berkeley, starting in 1999. She currently resides near the Berkeley Rose Garden.
