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Samantha West is an Amazon born into the concrete jungle of New York City on New Years Day 1983.

She has been published across Europe, Asia, and North America, including Vision Magazine in China, Vanity Fair in Germany, New York Magazine, The New York Times, Nerve.com, and Lamono Magazine in Spain, amongst others. She has been one of the principle photographers for the musical duo, CocoRosie, as well as having the privilege of shooting various other creative minds and hearts. Clients include Touch and Go Records, New Amsterdam Records, and Forever 21. She is represented by the 222 Gallery in Philadelphia and Los Angeles as well the Agitatto Gallery based in Geneva Switzerland. Most recently, Samantha's work is featured in Nerve: The First Ten Years, published by Chronicle Books, out December 2008. She is also a featured artist in NY Arts Magazine, Issue 14 (Jan/Feb 2009).

Samantha West photographs faces and forms that reflect love, intimacy, and trust. She photographs herself because sometimes you are your own best subject, but more often than not, because she finds it cathartic and healing.

She is inspired by the curious combination of vintage nudes, Fred Astaire movies, bus rides, mermaids (and their long mermaid hair), horses, barefoot cooking, and planning trips she cant afford quite yet...

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Website: www.samanthawest.net

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