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Tobia Makover is an international award winning fine art photographer who has exhibited around the world, notably at the National Portrait Gallery in London and Les Ateliers de L’image in St. Remy, France. Additionally, she is an adjunct professor at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Makeover moved to Savannah in 1996, where she instantly fell in love with the city. Four years later, she began a love affair with a Timmy Rowell. The couple, now married, welcomed their son, Samuel Phoenix, into the world Sept 11, 2007. When she is not negotiating the waters of being a new mother, Makeover has been found around the world. Her travels and the photographs born of them tell intense stories of familial histories. This new body of work was inspired by the loss of her father, particularly the moment he took his last breath while she held his hand. Struggling to learn to let go, she shoots to heal the pain.rnrnFor the Polish series, she traveled alone for eight months researching her family’s experiences during the Holocaust. Other countries, each with their own stories, include Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Germany, France, The Czech Republic, Mexico and Canada.rnrnWhile her first major body of work, “Let the Circle Be Unbroken”, centered on primary family relationship, explored the emotional complexities and subsequent scars of a young woman emerging into her own.rnrnIn all bodies of work and in life, Makeover contemplates the physicality of our existence. She questions the importance of our being and the impact of our time here. Finally, she examines the tension between holding on and the desire to let go.
