Light Passed Between Us - Frances Bukovsky
Light Passed Between Us
Frances Bukovsky
72 miles, doorstep to doorstep. Between 1 hour 30 minutes to 2 hours 15 minutes depending on the fickle nature of traffic. There is much held by distance. The space between us is heavy with longing and logistical headaches, but also spacious enough to hold intentionality, creativity, and relationship to place. We both are enriched by having two homes that often feel worlds apart, connected by a bi-weekly pilgrimage across the state line, after work phone calls, movie nights on a video call.
Through our care for each other, we’ve both gained love for the places each of us call home. The rivers and creeks, the downtowns and cafes, the communities and friends we’ve made. Light passes between us, carried and tended to when apart, and glowing brighter when together.
Frances Bukovsky (they/them) is interested in the complicated relationships between bodies, places, and identities. They use their photography practice to reject individualism and highlight interdependence and care, for both human and more-than-human bodies. Their work is informed by disability, queer, and ecological studies to create projects that connect the personal to the systemic.
Bukovsky earned a BFA with honors in Photography and Imaging from Ringling College of Art and Design in 2018. Their work has recently been featured in institutions including UC Irvine, The Bascom: A Center for the Arts, Circle Gallery at UGA, The United Nations HQ in New York, and TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image. Bukovsky’s debut monograph “Vessel” was published with Fifth Wheel Press in 2020. They have been a participant at Artist in Residency programs at the Peter Bullough Foundation in 2022 and the Goodall Visiting Fellows program at Wofford College in 2024. Bukovsky is a co-founder of Kinship Photography Collective as well as a member of Women Photograph.
