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Still Point Digital photography |
Artist Statement: In pandemic quarantine it was easy to feel isolated, separated from the rest of the world as if some strange fog had descended upon us, cutting us off from everything and everyone outside. I posted this photograph of a rower alone in the early-morning mist on the Delaware River on a local Facebook page and the woman recognized herself (don’t ask me how) and left a comment. Since then we’ve met in person and become friendly, demonstrating that the potential for human connection is sometimes more present than we might think. Bio: Catherine D. Kerr caught the camera bug early on, when her parents gave her a Brownie Starlet camera as a gift for her seventh birthday. Her first published photographs were taken to illustrate her work as a newspaper reporter and freelance writer. As she followed a career path that led to ordained ministry in the Episcopal Church, however, her purpose evolved from telling what happened to telling what matters. She is 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. In recent years she has focused on photography as a spiritual discipline, and she's written about and led quiet days on photography as a contemplative spiritual practice. Her work has been selected for display in a number of juried photography exhibitions, including most recently the 2021 Odyssey show sponsored by the Pennsylvania Center for Photography in Bucks County, PA, and a show titled "Essential Work 2020: A Community Portrait" this summer at the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, PA. |
