Emma Creighton Hopson

Emma Creighton Hopson (b. 1979) earned a Master of Fine Arts in photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design and lives with her family in Savannah, Georgia. Her images explore themes of identity and time as they relate to relationships and the social landscape. She works primarily with a view camera as a way to connect with the history and craft of photography and she embraces the medium’s ability to affect perception.

The artist’s most recent body of work, Wish You Were Here You Are, rejects patriarchal idealizations of the maternal by visualizing the nuances of being a mother. Wish You Were Here You Are also reflects on the illusory condition of photography and the disappearance of physical photographs.