Echoes of the Passage

Julie Anand and Damon Sauer

2025 — Earth Atmosphere

About this series

We are intrigued by the mark-making connected with traversing the earth’s atmosphere—a charge imbued upon artifacts that have been to the void and back. Having negotiated access to national repository holdings of rocket bodies, space capsules, and orbiters, we take clinical, abstract, detailed views of the burns, abrasions, and other markings on their surfaces. A soft round treatment for the typological convention draws attention to the act of observation—invoking the telescope, the microscope, and occasionally, the eye itself. In some images, transformed artifacts refer to celestial objects floating in the black void. We imagine that the objects we photograph may hold auras of embodied experience and perhaps our photographs may likewise be vehicles for contemplating going beyond.
Echoes works are (30” x 30”) 76.2cm x 76.2 cm

Photographer: Julie Anand & Damon Sauer
Nationality: American
Based in: Phoenix, AZ – USA
Website: anand-sauer.art
Instagram: @julie.anand.az

Julie Anand and Damon Sauer are photographic artists based in Phoenix, Arizona and have been collaborating for over twenty years. Their projects have been featured in Wired, Harper’s, National Geographic, Hyperallergic, and other publications including Chinese Photography Magazine and Politiken (print newspaper of Denmark). They have exhibited widely nationally in the United States including at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC. There work is housed in public collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Nevada Museum of Art’s Center for Art + Environment. They recently served as artists in residence for the Grand Canyon Conservancy. Anand currently works at Arizona State University as a Professor in the School of Art.