Sue Palmer Stone was born and raised in Connecticut. She graduated from Colby College in Maine, and moved to New York to work in advertising and marketing. Later returning to academia, she earned an M.A. in French from New York University in 1990. After moving back to Connecticut and while raising a family, she studied photography at Silvermine Art School. From 2012 to 2021, she participated in Sandi Haber Fifield’s photography workshops in Connecticut and New York City.
Her most recent body of work, Embodiment — Salvaging a Self, sits at the juncture of photography and sculpture. It represents a salvage operation: "I retrieve something of value from man-made cast-offs that would otherwise be lost or abandoned. I capture images in neglected or beat-up spaces, often hauling items to new sites, or back to my studio, to work with sculpturally and then photographically. The sculptures I create and photograph in my studio communicate obliquely and directly with what draws my attention in the outside world."
In 2022, Stone was awarded the PRC Choice Award for her photographs in PRC Boston’s Exposure 2022 exhibit, curated by Catherine Edelman. Featured in LensCulture Magazine, Stone’s work was chosen as one of the “15 Most Popular Discoveries, Interviews and Visual Stories of 2021.” Also in 2021, her photographs were selected by Michael Foley for the New Orleans Photo Alliance Currents exhibition at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. In 2019, Kris Graves Projects included her work in On Death, which made Time Magazine’s Best Photobooks of 2019. Stone’s images have also been featured in various juried exhibitions at Sohn Fine Art Gallery, PhotoPlace Gallery, Vermont Center for Photography, curated by Kimberly Witham, Sam Abell, Henry Hornstein and Elizabeth Avedon; and in Humble Arts Foundation’s 2019 online exhibition Numerology, curated by Roula Seikaly and Jon Feinstein.
