Sue LOTT and Matthew RICHARDS, collectively known as Lott-Richards.

Working artists active in the motion picture and television industry, graphic design, fine arts, photography and the music industry since the late 1980s.

Former resident members of Chicago's Fulton Street Collective.

Alumni of University of Michigan and Kendall College of Art and Design.

Seeking opportunities for exhibition and regional representation.

Statement:

Through photography we reveal intimate details from our personal lives to engage viewers with candid expressions of universal human needs and appetites—think Maslow’s hierarchy. We reveal our environments, our process, our habits, our bodies, and our marriage to confront assumptions about aging, health, body image, love, sex, and the human relationship with all of these things. We use instant, film, digital and phone cameras.

We each practice traditional cut-paper collage and view the medium as a reaction to the life-long sensory overload of images and media that we all experience. Things that we see and hear throughout life combined with experiences, memories, impressions and dreams are a sort of internally unexpressed collage. For us, collage utilizing found images and photography serves as a form of psychological filtration, organization, and expression. We collage primarily on bristol, wood, canvas with acrylic medium or rubber cement.