Seeing Beauty: Photography and the Sublime
Seeing Beauty: Photography and the Sublime with Susan Patrice
Tuesdays, September 27th - November 1st, 7 pm - 8:30 pm ET
Many of us yearn to create photographs full of feeling, intimacy, and emotion. Contemplative photography offers us a path. By centering our practice in humility and wonder, the living world comes alive revealing its hidden beauty and creative power. Here, we can move beyond rational thought and into the emotional realm of the heart. These ineffable moments, both subtle and profound, invite us into the heart of matter and radically change how we see and respond to the world.
During this six-week practice group, we will explore the intimate power of beauty and the wilder edges of the sublime through simple contemplative photography practices, personal sharing, and supportive group reflection. Each participant will invited share 5-10 images each week.
Requirements: Photographers of all levels are invited and welcome. If you are new to sharing your screen through Zoom, don’t worry, I can help you get started.
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 the co-founder of the Six Feet photography project and the Kinship Photography Collective.
Since 2016, her work has primarily explored the nature of visual perception 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
