Angela Strassheim

September 27, 2007

From forensic photography to fine art. Angela Strassheim has developed a style remarkably original in its obsessively careful compositions and lighting, in its uncanny sharpness . Angela Strassheim grew up in a family of 'born-again' Christians, who came to their present faith as the result of a conversion experience after childhood. With the series Left Behind (2005, book) she examines the world of these Christians. You can hear the photographer speak about this work.

"I learned to pay attention to detail through that job, like how you have to consider the entire frame, how something that's way off in the back corner--it's still part of the image. If this goes to court you can't have a person back there, you can't have a bloody knife in the background. So I think it was just learning to pay attention to the entire frame and the composition that you're looking at." - Angela Strassheim