The Cedar Lodge

Description

Maya Meissner’s The Cedar Lodge tells a disturbing dream-like story of her family’s close encounter with the Yosemite Killer in the late 1990s.  The project consists of artistic photographic materials from a variety of sources, such as collages, photographs taken as a teenager, altered family snapshots, and additional new photographs made in and around the hotel where the events happened.  Through these varied perspectives, Meissner investigates her discomfort, grief, confusion, and separation from the twist of fate that intertwined her with these events.

Design by Lorenzo Fanton

Maya Meissner is an artist living in New York working within the mediums of photography, collage, installation, books, and performance.  Her work often deals with personal histories relating to family, landscape, and the explicit relationship of the photograph as evidence.  She received her BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts, and was honored with the Rhodes Family Award for Outstanding Achievement in Photography.  Meissner’s book dummy for The Cedar Lodge won a FUAM Dummy Book Award Special Prize at the 2018 Istanbul Photobook Festival, and 2nd place in the 2018 Cosmos-Arles PDF Award.  It was also short listed as a finalist in competitions for the Unseen Dummy Award, Cortona on the Move Photobook Prize, Singapore International Photography Festival, and Fiebre Photobook Festival.  In 2019, Meissner was selected as a Photolucida Critical Mass Top 50 Finalist.  Her art and photography have been exhibited in galleries and festivals around the world.