Vicki Stiefel
Artist Statement Light PlayI have been a teacher and writer and scuba shop manager. My mystery-thrillers--Body Parts, The Dead Stone, The Grief Shop, and The Bone Man--have been published. I am married, have kids. I've lived in Arizona and New Jersey, Maine and Mass., and now I live in New Hampshire. And that is not the half of it.
Through it all, I've taken photographs. Maybe a billion family pics, millions of scenics and portraits and landscapes and news photos. Placing my eye behind the lens is never boring. What materializes is often deliberate and just as often a surprise. The camera as exploration. I love the synchronicity of photography.
I often wonder: what does the image say? Does it surprise you? Does it move you? Does it make you laugh? How much of me is a part of the image? Why does one image turn me on and another one bore me? How come this image works, when this other one is bland?
I also wonder: why must I capture what I am seeing, what I am feeling? Passion is a part of it, but certainly not all. It doesn't explain: Why photography? Why do it?
And sometimes I wonder if placing a camera in front of my face is an escape. There are times when I must step out from behind the lens and just be. At least I tell myself that.
Or am I overthinking it all? That's nature, too.
Play it light, or with the light, or play it lightly, or the play of light. My hope is that my fiction or my images make you feel something. Because art and its creation is all about feelings. At least to me.
From start to finish, I create all the images I produce. I photograph; I tweak; I interpret, then I print. These are not journalistic photos, but rather, my vision. All are limited editions, printed on archival paper with archival inks.
I also create portraits of people, animals, homes, and gardens on commission. Thanks for looking!
Vicki Stiefel
LightPlay Photos
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