RIPE: A Photopoetry Collection
This project was done in collaboration with my long-time friend and colleague Sandra Kacher, honoring her skill as a poet and our many previous collaborations both personal and professional. Photopoetry is an art form that merges photography and poetry, creating a new dialogue where images and words complement, challenge, or deepen each other”s meaning. In this collection I’ve created and paired images in response to the poem with a wish to encourage the viewer to find connections and draw their own interpretations between them.
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Sandra Kacher
About the poet
Sandra Kacher is a published poet whose work lives in the space where language becomes music and emotion finds form. Her collection, First Confession, (Kelsay Press, 2022), is filled with moments of clarity, longing, transformation and truth. Her poetry is both personal and expansive, delving into her own shadow and the vulnerable dimensions of human nature. Inspired by the natural world, she writes lovingly of oak trees, Lake Superior, and the garden she cherishes. She has been published in a variety of literary magazines, including Adanna, Star 82, Gyroscope, and The Galway Review. She is a member of the League of Minnesota Poets.
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Susan Bourgerie
About the photographer
I photograph what I love, and what piques my curiosity. Departing from realistic photography methods, I use Intentional Camera Movement (ICM) and in-camera multiple exposure techniques to create images that blur the boundaries between photography and abstract painting. Processing the camera’s captured images in Lightroom and Photoshop, I transform them in ways that may simply enhance the camera’s raw material, or may combine and process them to create more complex patterns of color and form that are purely abstract. My work has been exhibited in a variety of regional galleries, including Vine Arts Center, Burl Gallery, Kolman’s Reeb Gallery, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Robbin Gallery, and Phipps Center for the Arts.