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Hidden Homes

During the Covid pandemic, the momentum of the daily life slowed down. Outside for solitary expeditions, the familiar transformed into a new kind of magical discovery, as if witnessed for the first time. It was a time to stop and look at the details in my familiar environment. I felt like a child who with each step and each moment caught a fresh glimpses and new discovery. I learned to look and see things with fresh eyes.

Hidden Homes are discoveries and surprises, sometimes humorous, that one can find in their own quiet and solitude.

Lisa Cutler is a New York-based photographer whose practice spans landscape, portraiture and street photography . Lisa turned to photography after a successful career as a television producer and director and then raising a family.
Lisa’s most notable recent project is a series of photographs that explore the urban landscape of Red Hook, Brooklyn. Lisa’s Red Hook series has recently received much acclaim and recognition. Red Hook was completed in 2019 and has gone on to be recognized by a number of awards. Red Hook was selected by The Los Angeles Center of Photography for its Project 2020 Exhibition and subsequently featured in Lenscratch and in Dodho Magazine. Photolucida’s Critical Mass 2020 named Red Hook as a Top 200 finalist. It also received an Honorable Mention at the Le Prix de la Photographie de Paris (2019).Red Hook also won the 2020 15th Annual Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers in non-professional cityscapes. Eight images from her Red Hook series were exhibited at the 6th Biennial of Fine Art and Documentary Photography in Barcelona 2021. Red Hook was also named a finalist in the KLOMPCHING GALLERY Fresh 2020 exhibit.

Lisa's new series, Hidden Homes premiered at Foley Gallery in 2021.