Biography

Sam Bloom is a Sioux Falls based photographer exploring fashion and
beauty photography through an eccentric point of view. This influence comes from studying photography in New York after high school, where he worked in studio settings until the Coronavirus pandemic relocated him back to South Dakota. He describes that his work is often exercised through transformative makeup, selective color, and improvisation. He uses both film and digital mediums in his photography and enjoys experimenting in the post-production process.

As an artist, I like to play in that vast spectrum. I am often at odds with the
changes in my life, but I believe that people should celebrate and embrace that
change more often. My self-portraiture is an extension of those changes. An exploration of my feelings, desires, memories, and dreams. With the use of light, color, and makeup I can recreate those fragments and make them reality.

My style derives heavily from twentieth-century fashion/beauty photographers, and cinema from that era. In a way, I view each of my own pieces as a still image taken from a much longer story in which each subject has thoughts and motivations beyond the viewer’s perspective. Through a more playful, tongue-and-cheek tone, the photographs often focus on insecurity and pressure caused by intrapersonal/societal forces.