I posted a new video for homegrown stories.com -- "save the earth" 

Save the Earth is an experimental video focused on the dire state we are in and the need for action now. Activist Greta Thunberg passionately cries "Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!"

Save the Earth from Sandy Dyas on Vimeo.

there's something in the water -- new video work

I posted a new video for homegrown stories.com -- "there's something in the water." It was inspired by the word water and the poem by Gertrude Stein entitled "Careless Water." 

My Dad turned 98 years old this fall. We all know our deaths are inevitable but we hang on to life and continue to live each day like it is our last.

there's something in the water from Sandy Dyas on Vimeo.

AIR is DIRECTOR'S CHOICE in new show at Praxis Gallery in Minneapolis

AIR was chosen as the Director's Choice! 

International Photography Exhibition

Praxis Gallery in Minneapolis  

Words, Words, Words 

February 21 - March 17th, 2020 

Opening reception: February 21st

AIR, Sandra Louise Dyas (c)

Juror | Dallas Crow

The old saying, “A picture is worth a thousand words,” seems to suggest that a photograph transcends language, but words have been a key part of many important photographers’ work—from the billboards and signs in many Walker Evans’ photos to Lee Friedlander’s 2019 book, Signs, for example.   The interplay of language and image can create a vivid sense of tension, irony, or poignance. The size and shapes of a font are visual aspects that can carry as much weight as any other aspect in the frame.

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Praxis Gallery presents photographic art that includes written language as a fundamental aspect of the composition, including text in the form of signs or fragments of signs, handwriting scrawled over the photo, graffiti and palimpsests, just to name a few iterations of the theme.