Chloe Albert is a New York-based artist working at the intersection of photography and sculpture. She treats the photograph not as a flat image, but as a tactile object, mirroring the physical reality of the urban spaces she documents.

In her latest series, Handball Sanctuary, Albert documents the "architecture of endurance." By saturating the substrate with archival pigment, she mimics the grit and stress of the courts, transforming them from simple locations into sites of public ritual. The result is a sculptural object that captures the weight and significance of the everyday.

Consistent with Albert’s practice of treating photography as sculpture, the Handball Sanctuary online editions are not standard photo prints.

They are produced in New York on heavy-weight Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Bright White (310 gsm). This 100% cotton museum-grade paper was selected for its fibrous, tactile quality. It absorbs the ink deep into the paper grain rather than sitting on top of it, replicating the raw texture of the concrete walls and the "grit" of the sanctuary itself.