Samantha Jade is an artist working within expanded analogue practice, grounded in camera-less making and darkroom experimentation. She positions analogue photography as an evolving system shaped by alchemy, light, and time—processes through which photographic states emerge, transform, and dissolve.
In 2022 Jade won the Standish & Co Scholarship to undertake her MFA (Photomedia) at the National Art School, graduating in 2024 as Dux. Her postgraduate work was acquired by the National Art School archive and the City of Sydney for their contemporary art collection. Recent achievements include being a finalist in the 2022 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize held at the Museum of Australian Photography (formally the Monash Gallery of Art) in VIC, receiving the Joel Corrigan Memorial Photography Award (2022), the Prix Yves Hernot Photography Award (2023), and the Art Incubator Grant (2025).