Artist Statement:The pieces in Objects of Affection at CHG are drawn from my solo exhibition BluePrint of a Collection: Cyanotype Photography by David Sokosh, on view at Vermont's Shelburne Museum through October 26, 2025. The work is an exploration of American Material Culture in Shelburne's collection. The exhibition includes limited edition prints, photographic objects and a Cyanimation Moving Picture, all printed in Cyanotype. This exhibition is the result of two years spent working with the collections of American Material Culture at Shelburne Museum. The project started out in a straightforward way, when I asked Museum Curator Carolyn Bauer if anyone ever created new work inspired by the permanent collection. My idea was to photograph objects on film and print them on paper using Cyanotype as an extension of my ongoing project Past/Present - Memory/Loss which explores still-life as portrait/self-portrait. My passion for material culture, historic process, typography and storytelling drives me to create these hand-made photographs which give the viewer a glimpse into a world full of vintage objects and intriguing stories. The work can be humorous or upsetting, soothing or stimulating, telling stories of memory, isolation, desire, history and the love of beautiful things, while exploring still-life photography as portrait/self-portrait. The Shelburne images were meant to be somewhat documentary, possibly humorous and/or ironic and to encourage the viewer to see these objects in a new way. Some images in BluePrint... and included here in Objects of Affection fit that description. What I didn't expect was to create collaged images in a whole new way, or to include photographic objects like hatboxes and a quilt, and I certainly wasn't thinking about Cyanimation Moving Pictures. The finished exhibition is so much more than I imagined at the start. Working with the collection at Shelburne has changed mywork (both my approach and the result) forever. I have fond memories of spending summers in Vermont as a kid. My father's sister and her family lived in Rutland, VT and trips there meant going to tag sales and antique shops with my aunt. She had a wide range of collecting interests which influenced me at that early age and my love of collecting continues today. One year we went to Shelburne Museum, which had collections of thousands American Things on display. Ranging in size from thimbles to a steam ship and from wooden crates to Monets, the collections were like nothing I had seen in a museum before. I'm thrilled to have been able to work with a few of these fine objects. I hope the viewer gets as much joy out of viewing the work as I did while making it! Shelburne is the creation of founder Electra Havemeyer Webb. The museum's holdings are the culmination of decades of Mrs. Webb's dedication to collecting the finest examples in American Material Culture. And the museum itself is evidence of her ability to move (if not mountains then certainly) buildings of stone, brick and wood well as a full size steamship, a carousel and a locomotive to the campus in Shelburne Vermont. The daughter of two major collectors (her parents, Henry and Louisine Havemeyer formed a collection of French Impressionist paintings that now are central to the holdings of the Metropolitan Museum in New York), she used her resources, keen eye and taste that was ahead of her time, to create a collection that forms the core of Shelburne's holdings today. Artist Bio:David Sokosh is a photographer and filmmaker based in New York's Hudson Valley. He creates photographs using the 19th Century process of Cyanotype. Sokosh produces Limited Edition Prints, Photographic Artist Books, Photographic Objects andCyanimation Moving Pictures using Cyanotype. David Sokosh was raised in Connecticut, the son of two amateur photographers. As a result, he began taking pictures at an early age. He graduated from Western Connecticut State University in 1989 with a BA in Photography and settled in Brooklyn, New York that fall. Sokosh worked at Kelton Labs from 1989 to 1997. During that time he worked with Lillian Bassman, Steven Klein, Brigitte Lacombe, Helen Leavitt, Mary Ellen Mark, Mark Seliger, Lou Stettner, and many others. By 1991 he had become interested in the Polaroid Transfer process and received a number of grants from the Polaroid Corporation, culminating in a 20x24-studio grant in 1992 and inclusion in their permanent collection. Sokosh participated in group exhibitions in New York City including a solo show in 1996 at Bergdorf Goodman Men featuring 35 architectural images. While in Provincetown, MA, in 2001, he began a study of the relationship between power lines and architecture. Forty-eight images from this series were published as the book "Provincetown Lines" by St. James Workshop in 2004. Sokosh was the director of Underbridge Pictures, a gallery in the DUMBO section of Brooklyn from 2005 - 2008. Underbridge specialized in images of architecture, exhibiting painting and photography.Always interested in historic photo processes, Sokosh has never taken up digital photography. In fact, he has moved backward from traditional film and gelatin silver printing to the mid 19th Century process of wet-plate collodion, which he now uses exclusively. Wet-plate creates unique images on metal and glass, commonly called tintypes and ambrotypes. His tintypes appeared in the New York Times on the cover of the Thursday Styles section accompanying the story “This Just in from the 1890’s”.He moved from Brooklyn to Claverack, NY in 2015, and has a new daylight studio and wet-plate darkroom there. David Sokosh was was included in the exhibition: "Views of Antiquity Shaping the Classical Ideal" Spring 2019 at the Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg, FL. He will have select photographs in the exhibition "Time Lapse" at the Shelburne Museum in Burlington, VT fall of 2019.Sokosh’s work in included in numerous collections including the Polaroid Corporation, Pfizer, the Kinsey Institute, the Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg, and many private collections. CV:Born - 1963, American EDUCATIONWestern Connecticut State University, Bachelor of Arts, 1989 Studied at WSCU with Steve BlissTed Orland - The Zone SystemMary Virginia Swanson - Finding Your Audience and CareerOptions in Photography.Lothar Osterburg - PhotogravureEric Taubman/Penumbra - Wet-Plate Collodion CURRENT PROJECTSBluePrint of a Collection: Cyanotype Photography by David SokoshSolo Exhibition May - October 2025 Shelburne Museum, VT An exploration of American Material Culture at Shelburne Museum (Cyanotype prints, Cyano-Collage, Photographic Objects and aCyanimation Moving Picture) Past/Present-Memory/Loss A celebration of Material Culture during anexploration of still-life as portrait/self-portrait. UPCOMING PROJECTS: Gatsby in Blue: A Fantasia on Fitzgerald's The Great GatsbyA still-life project that focuses on lesser known passages in The Great Gatsby. Photographic Artist Book, Exhibition Prints and a Cyanimation Moving Picture, all printed in Cyanotype. Redactive: Examining 19th and 20th Century Objects Bearing WordsA still life project where objects are photographed and then retouched toobscure portions of the text. This redaction reveals a new narrative. ONGOING PROJECTS: John Rogers in the 21st Century: Contemporary Issues Seen Through a 19th Century Lens A still-life project that reveals hidden relationships and artist's intentions in Sculptor John Rogers' groups. Photographic Artist Book, Exhibition Prints and a Cyanimation Moving Picture, all printed inCyanotype. COMPLETED PROJECTS: Things That Look Like the MOON (but are not the moon) a limited edition, hand-made book and a set of limited edition portfolio prints, printedwith cyanotype (no ink involved). SELECTED EXHIBITIONS2025 Objects of Affection Group Show at Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY. September 26 - Nov. 16, 2025 BluePrint of a Collection: Cyanotype Photography by David Sokosh Solo Exhibition Shelburne Museum, Shelburne Vermont Carolyn Bauer, Curator May 10 - October 26, 2025 Free For All Inaugural Group Show, CPW Kingston, NY 2024 Open Juried Exhibition Juried Group Show VCP Brattleboro, VT Crista Dix (Griffin Museum) Juror Home Sweet Home Juried Group Show Analog Forever/PRC Boston. Jessica Burko, Juror Winter 2024 Juried Group Exhibition The Curated Fridge Jessica Burko Juror Winter's Long Embrace Invitational Group Exhibition Bill Arning Exhibitions Kinderhook, NY 2023 Portrait Juried Group Exhibition SE Center for Photography Greenville, SC Brian Clamp Juror First Look Group Exhibition Collier West/Studio 369 Brooklyn, NY Equipoise - Stasis and the Power of Suggestion in Still Life Group Exhibition Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY Words MatterGroup ExhibitionRI Center for Photographic ArtsProvidence, RI PhotoBookWorks 2023Spark Gallery, Denver ColoradoCurated by Alicia Bailey - Abecedarian Artists' BooksJuried by Greg Roybl 2022 13th Annual Self Published Photobook Show Davis-Orton Gallery + Griffin Museum of PhotographyKaren Davis and Crista Dix jurors. Exposure 2022 Juried Group Exhibition.FPAC Gallery + PRC Boston.Catherine Edelman juror. Turning the Gaze: The Male NudeGroup ExhibitionEquity Gallery, NYCPeter Trippi Juror Photography Artist Book Initiative, Featured Artist, Griffin Museum 2/22/22 Exhibition: Pairs and Diptychs, Lenscratch. 2021 Alternative Process, Group Show SOHO Photo Gallery, New York, NY Paula Tognarelli juror. Winter Solstice, Group Show, The Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA 2020 Member's Show, Group Show, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY 2019 Time Lapse - Contemporary Analog Photography, Group Show, Shelburne Museum, VT Mortals, Saints & Myths, Group Show, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY 2019 Views of Antiquity Shaping the Classical Ideal, Group, Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg, FL 2015 Steampunk, Group Show, Kemerer Museum of Decorative Arts, Bethlehem, PA 2014 Sintypes, Solo Show, Adam Peck Gallery, Provincetown, MA American Tintypes, Solo Show, Robert Tat Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2012 At Home Again, Solo Show, Esmond-Wright Gallery, Provincetown, MA 2009 Angels, Group Show, MDH Fine Arts, NYC 2008 Spring Juried Exhibition, Group Show, Schoolhouse Gallery. Provincetown, MA Larry Collins, juror. 2007 Gay 90's, Solo Show, Underbridge Pictures - Magnum Festival '07. Brooklyn, NY 2006 Pictorialism, Solo Show, Galleria Artemisia. Provincetown, MA 2004 Provincetown Lines, Solo Show, Thanasi Gallery, Provinctown, MA 2003 Members Juried Exhibition, PAAM, Provincetown, MA 1994 Fashion in Metal, Metal in Art, Group Show, Bergdorf Goodman, NYC 1993 Colore Sfumati, Group Show, Robin Rice Gallery, NYC 1991 Transfer, Group Show, 575 Tech Square Gallery(Polaroid), Cambridge, MA 1990 Sroup Show, Ivan Karp Juror, 80 Washington Square East Gallery, NYC 1989 New Talent - New Work, Group Show, WAA, Washington Depot, CT SELECTED PUBLICATION/PRESS Dana Wright: Interview and broadcast of Shelburne: ClownAutomaton on TV/FILM WMHT (PBS) Episode 5, July 2025 Kelley, Niniane: Feature: David Sokosh,Analog Forever Magazine March 2024 Feeney, Mark: Exposure 2022 Takes Photography to UnexpectedPlaces, Boston Globe review, August 10, 2022 Sokosh, David: Things That Look Like the MOON (but are not themoon), Limited Edition Artist Book, 2022 Shabott, Laura: Melding of Past & Present in Tintypes Show in Provincetown, Wicked Local Provincetown August 14, 2014 Colman, David: This Just in From the 1890's, New York Times, ThursdayStyles Cover, November 11, 2009 The Making of a Tintype, The New York Times, November 11, 2009 Sokosh, David: Provincetown Lines, St. James Workshop, 2004 COLLECTIONS Shelburne MuseumThe Kinsey InstituteMuseum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FLPfizer CollectionPolaroid CollectionLECTURES2025 BluePrint of a Collection:Cyanotype Photography by David Sokosh Artist Talk and Tour, Shelburne Museum, VT 2022 On Seeing, Photobook Panel Discussion Griffin Museum, Winchester, MA 19th Century Photography in the Hudson Valley: A Conversation between photographer David Sokosh and Executive Director Lisa Weilbacker. Columbia County Historical Society, Kinderhook, NY 2019 Time Lapse - Contemporary Analog Photography Artists' Panel with John Dugdale and Keliy Anderson Staley, Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT GRANTS1992 Polaroid 20 x 24 Studio Grant, NYC REPRESENTATION HISTORYCarrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY (Current)Adam Peck Gallery, Provincetown, MAEsmond-Wright Gallery, Provincetown, MAMDH Fine Art, NYC Galleria Artemisia, Provincetown, MA Underbridge Pictures, Brooklyn, NYThanassi Gallery, Provincetown, MASoHo Triad Fine Arts, NYC