Connie Samaras' artistic career as a photographer and videographer has focused on feminism (specifically second wave), culture, technology, sexuality and gender studies, science, and both man-made and natural environments.

[4] V.A.L.I.S (Vast Active Living Intelligence System) was a photographic project that Samaras worked on through a National Science Foundation's Artists and Writers grant that took her to Antarctica for parts of two years between 2005 and 2007.

The premise of Samaras's project was to document the extreme environment and how it affected the surrounding architecture as time passed.

[5] In these photos one sees how the ice and harsh environment repeatedly consume the human-made structures in the area, forcing people .

Samaras's works from Antarctica reflect a deadpan approach that avoids prompting emotional responses in the viewers.