Sophie Fenwick is a French-American photographer, born in 1969 in New York City. She studied photography at Parsons in Paris and at the International Center of Photography in New York City. She started documenting the New York waterfront in the early 1990s.
She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, filmmaker Julius Ziz. They have two daughters, Sia and Lara.
StatementMore than mere documentation of an essential part of the
life of the city, New York Waterfront Diary is a meditation
on time and distance. Echoing the richly observed detail
in the stories of the New Yorker writer and waterfront
wanderer Joseph Mitchell and the grittily poetic settings of
Elia Kazan’s 1954 film On the Waterfront, Fenwick’s project
summons both memory and imagination.
Solo show “Entrepôts d’Eaux” (Homage to the Port of New York) at Victoire Schlumberger in Paris, 1991.
Her other exhibitions include shows in New York City at the Philippe Briet Gallery, 1993, Threadwaxing Space, 1993, The Seamen’s Church Institute, 1994, the Museum of the City of New York, 1994, and the Brooklyn Public Library, 2004 and the Photoville Festival at the Alice Austen House Museum, 2024. Her photographs are in the collection of The Seamen’s Church Institute, the Museum of the City of New York, the Brooklyn Public Library, the Brooklyn Museum and private collections world wide.
In addition to her photographic career, Sophie has also worked as a film curator, creating Ciné Club at the Guillaume Gallozzi Gallery (NYC), as well as programming at Anthology Film Archives and Ocularis (NYC). Sophie also worked 15 years at the Brooklyn Academy of Music as a technical interpreter on many French theater, music & dance performances, notably with Peter Brook, Zingaro, Les Arts Florissants and others.
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