There’s a timeless indefinable quality to Sally Mann’s work. From her Immediate Family series featuring her own children but whom leapt out of the images as otherwordly knowing waifs to her studies of the American landscape in Deep South  that bore the aged quality of trees that have stood a lifetime.

For her new show Upon Reflection at the Edwynn Houk Gallery, in cooperation with Gagosian Gallery, she has turned her own image into a distorted reality. Formed from the pain of a horse-riding accident out on the plains of Virginia where she and her family raise Arabian stallions, her self portraits are tormented ghostly apparitions. Grained and scarred, her photographs convey the gravity and at once haziness of experience and memory.

Sally Mann, Upon Reflection is at the Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, 13 September – 3 November 2012.

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