Catherine Kerr

You Have Been Given Bowls of Tears to Drink - Psalm 80

Digital photography

Artist Statement: My first published photographs were taken to illustrate my work as a newspaper reporter and freelance writer, and that experience in journalism still informs my work. As I followed a career path that led to ordained ministry in the Episcopal Church, however, my purpose has evolved from telling what happened to telling what matters.

I'm especially interested in the way light can be a metaphor for grace or presence, and in particular in the way it breaks in and illuminates, transforming the ordinary to be extraordinary.

Lately in my photography I've also been exploring how people interact with each other and with the world around them, each interaction consciously or unconsciously reflecting the character of their connection to a greater whole.

Bio: Catherine D. Kerr received her first camera, a Brownie Starlet she still owns, as a gift for her seventh birthday. Later, her father taught her to develop and print film in the darkroom he built in the basement of their home. Her first published photos were taken to articles she wrote for newspapers and magazines, and she continued to use her cameras professionally in her work as communications manager for the Pace Center for Civic Engagement at Princeton University.

Since her ordination as a priest in the Episcopal Church in 2013, Kerr has focused on photography as a spiritual discipline, and she has written about and led quiet days on photography as a comtemplative practice. Her work has also been selected for display in a number of art shows near her home in Bucks County, PA. She is rector of Good Shepherd Church in Hilltown, PA.
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