Susan Weiss is an interdisciplinary artist working in fine art and documentary photography, filmmaker, author, and art educator. She is based between San Francisco and Vermont. The work spans many disciplines and moves freely between analog and digital processes depending on what the subject demands. Her practice includes the use of the Mamiya 7II, Leica film and digital cameras, Polaroid 680. SX70, Pathfinder and I-2 models, plastic cameras, and the iPhone Pro Max – choosing the specific tool to create her voice.
The photographs and films have been exhibited widely, including museums, galleries and indie film houses on an international scale. The films have screened on the festival circuit and received many awards in several categories including best documentary short, best cinematography, and best trailer.
Her book, THE ORCHARD, published by Green Writers Press (Brattleboro, VT, 2024), presents abstract instant film images taken with the Mint InstantKon RF70, and is a collection of photographs of a Vermont apple orchard across four seasons, photographed over a two year period, creating a meditation on time, hope, and the natural world made during the years of the pandemic. Her most recent book, the zine “29”, accompanies the photography project and film “Lia: Body of Work” (2025), and was exhibited in San Francisco). The mail art postcard projects – Greetings From Rutland, It Came From Within, and Effects and Responses – extend her practice into themore personal, hand-distributed form of the artist’s book. Thimble Spell: The Beginning, is a photographic narrative in Japanese manga style and featured in the Griffin Museum Self-Publishing Show 2026.
Weiss has given public lectures in San Francisco and Vermont, hosted panel discussions and interviews of other artists, published articles, radio interviews and Zoom talks about both her documentary and fine art projects. For more detailed information regarding her work please visit the ARTISTIC PRACTICE (Live link) page.
Susan Weiss teaches drawing and student art portfolio preparation, both in person and via Zoom.
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