Prompted by Caribbean cultural/political studies; familial and regional histories; folklore and memory, Samantha Box constructs restless photographs using her body and hair; Caribbean fruits and vegetables; heirloom textiles and jewelry; reedy seedlings; and archival photographs and paintings. These images are autoethnographic, articulating hybrid Jamaican/Trinidadian diaspora experience, from her embodied perspective.

Samantha Box is a Jamaican-born, Bronx-based photographer. In her studio-based practice, she uses still-life and self-portraiture to explore her intersecting diasporic Caribbean histories and identities. This work has been exhibited at the Houston Center of Photography (2019), and the Andrew Freedman House (2020), and will be the focus of her upcoming residency at the Center of Photography at Woodstock in August 2021.

Her previous documentary work focused on New York City’s community of queer and TGNB youth of color, and was widely recognized, notably with a NYFA Fellowship (2010), and shown, most prominently, as part of the ICP Museum’s Perpetual Revolution (2017) exhibition. This work is part of the permanent collections of the Open Society Foundation, EN FOCO, the Museum of Fine Art Houston, and of Light Work, where she was in residence in 2015.

Box holds an MFA in Advanced Photographic Studies from the International Center of Photography/Bard College (2019) and a certificate in Photojournalism and Documentary Studies from the International Center of Photography (2006). She was a member of the Bronx Museum of the Arts’ AIM Fellowship program in 2021.