Sam Taylor-Johnson is a contemporary British photographer and filmmaker. Interested in the relationship between identity and appearance, her work examines the contradictions between our interior lives and our exterior presentations of the self. “I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities,” she explained. “Art was a way of reinventing myself.” Born Samantha Louise “Sam” Taylor-Wood on March 4, 1967 in Croydon, United Kingdom, the artist turned from sculpture to photography and film in the 1990s after graduating from Goldsmiths College, merging a cinematic sensibility with her still images. Part of the Young British Artists group that emerged in the 1990s, she is now best known for her mainstream feature-length films ...