Connecticut HQ Art

Hannah Whitaker works primarily with photography, addressing the pervasive unease surrounding how technology relates to humanity. In Pairs (2022), a black outlined figure stands out against a black and white striped background, melting into its reflection below. Her silhouetted portraits represent seemingly familiar human figures, obscured and manipulated into dark, synthetic forms. Using mirrors, long exposures, reflective materials, special lighting, and anthropomorphized arrangements, her work treats technology as a medium as well as an aesthetic position. Many images employ digital interventions to conceal, dislocate, or duplicate human appendages—a response to technology’s tendency to fragment our everyday experiences and evacuate meaning in the service of data. In their stark contrasts, these portraits carry a menacing subtext within their outlines and an all-too-human trepidation in the face of disorienting change.

Whitaker graduated from Yale University and has a Masters of Fine Arts in Advanced Photographic Studies from Bard College, NY. She is based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has been featured in Photography Is
Magic (Aperture, 2015) and Aperture Online. She was included in Public Art Fund’s 2017 citywide exhibition, Commercial Break, in New York; Foam Talent 2014, which traveled to Paris, Amsterdam, and Dubai, United Arab Emirates; and Les Rencontres d’Arles, France, in 2012, where she was nominated for the Louis Roederer Discovery Award. In 2020, her work was featured in the inaugural Henie Onstad Triennial for Photography and New Media, Høvikodden, Norway.