My series “Locked-In” explores the phenomenon of feeling stuck and the accompanying sense of failure to control the forces that seem to dictate our lives. Using metaphor and imagery that suggest the inability to move on, I endeavor to invoke the absence of agency and a perceived futility of each waking day. My choice to use self-portraiture reflects not only a personal journey, but also a common experience of women who feel consciously aware of what they should pursue or speak up about but feel impotent in the face of a dominant power: unequal relationships, demons residing in the subconscious, societal expectations and especially the disappearance of relevancy with encroaching age.

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About
After a successful career writing for American sitcoms, Susan Borowitz discovered photography as a new way to tell stories in 2011. Currently, she practices Fine Art self-portraiture, expressing reflections of psychological journeys. Always viewing life through a comic lens, she has been described by Featureshoot as combining “the deadpan humor of Buster Keaton with the cultural critique of Cindy Sherman.” Her award-winning images have been exhibited in Germany, France, Italy, and Spain as well as many US galleries and are in private collections in New York, Chicago, New Jersey and California.