Throckmorton Fine Art is pleased to offer an exhibit by the accomplished photographer, Elizabeth
Sunday. Thirty of her portraits of Africans—male and female—will be shown, all of which are black and-
white, large format, platinum prints. Sunday uses mirrors to elongate figures, producing a
compelling visual alchemy. The resulting portraits, while elegant, entice a “hard look,” to see what
is being shown and, inevitably, to speculate on what is masked. The most familiar—and beautiful—
form, that of the human body, is shown in different ways. Sunday’s photographs are utterly original.
Her work is groundbreaking.
Sunday is passionate, hard-working, and methodical: she has spent years on projects, and
traveled to some of the most inaccessible corners of Africa, from the Sahara desert of Mali to the
forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, from the coast of Ghana to the highlands of
Ethiopia. Sunday develops all of her prints herself.
Sunday’s photography has been widely exhibited in Europe and in the United States at an
impressive range of institutions, ranging from the Münchner Stadtmuseum (in Munich), to the Fogg
Art Museum at Harvard University, to the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, to the Los Angeles
County Museum of Art. An equally impressive set of institutions hold Sunday’s work in their
collections, from the Bibliothèque nationale de France to the Eastman Kodak Collection. An oversized
book recently has been published of her work; it is titled GRACE.
The Throckmorton exhibit will be the first New York showing of Sunday’s platinum prints.