about me
My work lives at the intersection of felt sense and design, shaped by a sustained practice of attention, perception, and communication.
Since 2010, I have been refining the craft of movement photography through portraiture, performance, and process documentation. I am drawn to the energy, texture, and intelligence of bodies in motion, and to the quiet details that reveal how a person inhabits a moment.
I received my MFA in Dance and Performance from Smith College, where my research centered on improvisational storytelling and minimal environmental design for the stage. My thesis work, Good Grief, explored how light, space, sound, and subtle gesture can generate narrative and emotional landscapes.
My current performance research, RED, explores how ensembles cultivate what I call Exquisite Attention: a heightened capacity to perceive, respond, and create together. The work draws from authentic relating, community processing forums, chance based structures, divination practices, and emergent improvisational tools. Through these forms, I investigate how collective attention can generate intimacy, meaning, and unexpected compositional worlds.
This background continues to shape my photographic practice. I approach documentation as a form of listening, attending to the honest rhythms of people and their work, the way light gathers around a gesture, and the meaning held within orientation, relationship, and presence.
anna.maynard@gmail.com