Zoe Crosher’s practice deals with photography as a tool of fiction of documentary. She has long been interested in thinking through the ways that memory operates through photographs on the basis of the stories that we ourselves write. Also, her home of Los Angeles has a unique and specific relationship to fiction—truth and imagination are easily conflated here—so she is particularly interested how she can use documentary photography to the same end. Ultimately, no matter how adept we have become in reading photographs, there is still the traditional assumption of an overarching “truth” in our approach to documentary work, which Crosher hopes to complicate.

Zoe Crosher (born 1975) currently lives and works in Los Angeles. In addition to her exhibition practice, she has a monograph, Out the Window (LAX), examining space and transience around the Los Angeles airport, and an upcoming publication series of her newest project, The Michelle duBois project, published by Aperture Ideas. Crosher served as Visiting Professor at UCLA and Art Center, as well was Associate Editor at the journal Afterall after receiving her MFA from CalArts. Recently she was awarded the prestigious Art Here and Now Award by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Her work was included in the 2010 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art, California, and she has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States. She is represented by Perry Rubenstein.