Artist Statement
My art emerges from a childhood in south Louisiana, absorbing the relentless press of nature that is inescapable there. The images I make address the most primal, elemental aspects of my environment. These photographs blur the line between what is there and what else is there.
My photographs explore a nature that speaks simultaneously of ephemera and permanence, passages and sanctuary, reflections and revelations. They are maps to moments where, as a wise and generous teacher, led me, “we must be still in order to listen with the eyes and see with the heart.”
Process Statement
I remain committed to silver based materials and the craft of the wet darkroom. I make these images with a 5x7 view camera and print them with traditional darkroom processes. The contemplative stance stimulated by use of these silver-based materials, as well as the intimate, hands-on connection they foster between me and the subject matter, are a vital part of executing my vision.
Eleanor Owen Kerr is a landscape photographer working in her native Louisiana environs. Her photographs are in the permanent collections of the U.S. State Department and the LSU Museum of Art as well as many corporate and private collections. Kerr’s work been recognized by groups such as the International Photography Awards, Black and White Spider Awards, and Women in Photography International. She has been published in recent editions of SHOTS Journal of Photography, The Photo Review, Photographer’s Forum, Silvershotz International Journal of Fine Art Photography and One One Thousand Journal of Southern Photography. Kerr is represented by galleries in Baton Rouge, New Orleans, and Carmel, California.
Eleanor uses large format cameras and meticulously crafts silver gelatin prints in a traditional wet darkroom. She studied at Maine Photographic Workshops and apprenticed with renowned photographer Paul Caponigro. Her photographs incorporate a level of contemplative stillness that belies the simultaneous sense of drama inherent her perception of nature.
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