My work takes an intuitive approach to tell stories that lead back to universal messages. The work centers around family, belonging, home and culture. The format of my work changes a lot to fit each project. While photography has remained central in my work, I frequently twist and bend it beyond its two dimensions and bring in other materials to create three-dimensional art objects and artist books. Photography is no longer a means to an end. It is instead my main process to be used with other processes from other disciplines. Photographs have become a raw material instead of being the final product.

Hannah Frieser is a photographer and book artist. She is the director of Light Work, an artist-run, non-profit organization in Syracuse, NY, that has supported artists working in photography and related media since 1973. She has curated exhibitions on photographers such as Pipo Nguyen-duy, Kanako Sasaki, Don Gregorio Antón, and Rachel Herman. She also organized extended exhibitions with Suzanne Opton and Barry Anderson, which included multiple venues, billboards and more. Her essays have been printed in photography publications such as Contact Sheet and Nueva Luz, exhibition catalogues, and more.

Hannah has reviewed portfolios and juried exhibitions for Photo Lucida, FotoFest, En Foco, Rhubarb Rhubarb, the Photographic Resource Center, the Center for Photography in Woodstock, and more. She has served on the review panel for Visual Arts for the New York State Council on the Arts. Prior to joining Light Work, she worked for the Society for Photographic Education for over twelve years, including serving on SPE's board of directors. In March 2010, she co-chaired an SPE National Conference with Miriam Romais from En Foco. The conference theme was "Facing Diversity: Leveling the Playing Field in the Photographic Arts."

Further 2010 projects include an essay which will be printed in David Taylor's monograph Working the Line, published by Radius Books. Hannah also served as juror with Debora Ryan and Peter Verheyen for the exhibition Fit to Be Bound at the Everson Museum of Art, scheduled April 17 - July 11, 2010. And she is jurying a member exhibition for the Houston Center for Photography (submission deadline April 1), scheduled to open in July.

Hannah Frieser can be contacted at mail@hannahfrieser.com