Beauty & the Sublime: A Photography Awe Walk on the Bartram Trail

Written By Susan Patrice
 

Beauty & the Sublime: An Earth Day Photography Awe Walk on the Bartram Trail

Saturday, April 22nd, 2023, 4 - 7 pm

An Awe Walk is a walk within a place of meaning and beauty to encounter something that amazes and transcends, whether big or small. In celebration of EarthDay we will be meeting on the Bartram Triail near Highlands, NC and drawing inspiration from William Bartram’s reflections on beauty and the sublime. This leisurely 3-hour walk will use photography to cultivate humility and wonder. Using simple contemplative photography practice, we will learn how to see and respond to the hidden beauty around us while finding new ways to make meaningful photographs.

Requirements:  Photographers of all levels are welcome; even a seasoned practitioner should find value in this unique approach to the medium.

Cost: $25

Susan Patrice is a documentary photographer and contemplative artist. Her photography and public installations focus primarily on the Appalachian landscape and its people and feature intimate images that touch deeply into questions of place, belonging, and ecological personhood. She lives in Marshall, NC, where she is the director of Makers Circle and a co-founder of the Kinship Photography Collective.

Since 2016, her work has primarily explored the power of beauty and its impact on our feelings of connection and kinship. Through the use of handmade cameras built in response to the land, she engages in deep conversation with the places and persons of her native region. Her most recent project, The Land of My Body, combines her work as a documentary photographer and citizen artist as she explores her family’s multigenerational legacy of trauma and the healing power of photography to transform and reimagine the past.  

Susan Patrice

Susan Patrice

Susan Patrice

Susan Patrice

As the founder and director of Makers Circle, Susan Patrice designs and implements arts-informed community initiatives in partnership with non-arts organizations who want to expand their reach and impact through innovative cross-sector collaboration. Makers Circle has a deep passion for the power of the creative process to encourage adaptive change, expand awareness, and open up new ways of seeing and relating. We believe that the arts and artists should play a major role in community regeneration and non-profit advancement. Web design and digital storytelling are foundational to the work we do with non-profits.

https://kinship.photography/
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