About Me
Elizabeth Sarpong is an emerging Fine Arts Photographer, from Chicago Illinois. She is a Ghanaian-American artist who works primarily in the medium of Digital Photography. Sarpong's work is a force to be reckoned with, as she contends with real-life issues in the realm of her blackness and on a broader spectrum.
Growing up in a Ghanaian household, Sarpong's work draws heavily upon her heritage and identity as a conduit for her art. She first became interested in Photography at the young age of 15 and has been honing her craft ever since. Her visionary works tell the story of many, shedding light on pressing matters such as the neglect of black women within society.
Sarpong's stylistic choices and intentional connotations create alluring images that are powerful in their attempt to disrupt one's perception with beauty and thought-provoking questions. Her work challenges the markers of her identity prescribed onto her by society, such as her blackness and womanhood, and presents them as elegies that question and redefine what it means to be a young black creative voice.
"How I view the world is in relation to the identities that I have inherited. These identities are the possession that I carry around, and in some instances, harbor a can of worms that put me at a standstill of confusion, regarding how I will be discerned outwardly to the audience that is our society. Every day I face the question, of how I can overcome this strife. How I sever this inquiry centers around my blackness and the many ways that I have defined it. Who I am and my work explores the many facets that are tied to my blackness. My womanhood, my Ghanaian-American identity, and the present and past that has infiltrated the depths of history in relation to black bodies. I seek knowledge for who I am and the many people that look like me in my every waking moment, and with this has come, a divine unapologetic pride of who I am that is unyielding to the strife that is judgment. With this approach in my life, I lead with this intent when it comes to my creative endeavors and art."
-Elizabeth Sarpong
Growing up in a Ghanaian household, Sarpong's work draws heavily upon her heritage and identity as a conduit for her art. She first became interested in Photography at the young age of 15 and has been honing her craft ever since. Her visionary works tell the story of many, shedding light on pressing matters such as the neglect of black women within society.
Sarpong's stylistic choices and intentional connotations create alluring images that are powerful in their attempt to disrupt one's perception with beauty and thought-provoking questions. Her work challenges the markers of her identity prescribed onto her by society, such as her blackness and womanhood, and presents them as elegies that question and redefine what it means to be a young black creative voice.
"How I view the world is in relation to the identities that I have inherited. These identities are the possession that I carry around, and in some instances, harbor a can of worms that put me at a standstill of confusion, regarding how I will be discerned outwardly to the audience that is our society. Every day I face the question, of how I can overcome this strife. How I sever this inquiry centers around my blackness and the many ways that I have defined it. Who I am and my work explores the many facets that are tied to my blackness. My womanhood, my Ghanaian-American identity, and the present and past that has infiltrated the depths of history in relation to black bodies. I seek knowledge for who I am and the many people that look like me in my every waking moment, and with this has come, a divine unapologetic pride of who I am that is unyielding to the strife that is judgment. With this approach in my life, I lead with this intent when it comes to my creative endeavors and art."
-Elizabeth Sarpong