The beautifully printed images in Tsar Fedorsky’s The Quarry Project continue her 20-year research into black-and-white photography and its power to create abstraction from the reality recorded by the camera. Known for expressive images that relate intensely personal narratives, such as the critically-acclaimed series The Light Under the Door, Fedorsky transforms everyday scenes into a space for contemplation of new lives, identities, and perceptions.

Fedorsky writes, “Begun in 2016, The Quarry Project photographs are a study in duality and tension. They comprise a deep exploration of the familiarity of place, the quarries near my home in Gloucester, Massachusetts, yet contain a longing to be transported to another world, a larger life, even infinity. They straddle a space between truth and fiction, between the exterior and interior, between fact and dream. Although rooted in landscape, they are self-portraits, revealing a state of mind, more psychological and emotional than pragmatic.”

The Quarry Project was exhibited at Aurora PhotoCenter in 2024 and was the first time Tsar Fedorsky’s work was shown in Indianapolis.

Tsar Fedorsky is based in Gloucester, Massachusetts. She received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for Creative Arts in Photography in 2018, was a Critical Mass Finalist in 2015 and 2017, and received an Artist Fellowship Grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council in 2015. In 2023, she traveled to Brazil as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar. Her photographs have been exhibited and published nationally and worldwide. Fedorsky received an MFA in Photography from the University of Hartford and a BA from Amherst College.