Séance talk @ Stories LA, photo by Alexandra Fanning

Shannon Taggart is a photo-based artist and author in St. Paul, MN, USA. In a past life, she made pictures for printed publications such as NewsweekNew York Times MagazineDiscoverNew YorkWall Street Journal, and Reader’s Digest. Her book Séance, named one of TIME Magazine’s ‘Best Photobooks of 2019’, has been featured by CNN Style, Bookforum, Washington Post, New York Times T Style Magazine, Lensculture,  Le Monde, Financial Times, and The Paris Review. Her work has been exhibited internationally and recognized by Nikon, The Inge Morath Foundation + Magnum Photos, The Alexia Foundation for World Peace, and American Photography, among others. She has spoken on her work at venues including the Yale School of Art, Peabody-Essex Museum, Gallery of Everything, Minneapolis Institute of Art, and the Walker Art Center. Every summer she curates and hosts a symposium in Lily Dale, NY, and is currently working on an illustrated book about the Society for Research on Rapport and Telekinesis (SORRAT), one of the strangest cases in the history of psychical research. Her project on Substack is an extension of Séance and the two books in progress that will complete it as a trilogy.

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