TITLE: People, Shadows and Ghosts

Hand surgery in June 2023, left me unable to hold my camera, much less use it. From photographing daily to just looking at my camera sitting alone on the table left me extremely frustrated and sad. In an effort to avoid falling into a dark place I found a way to make photographs. They were unlike my usual work, but they seemed to reflect my mental state at the time. Though they were dark, but they had an element of light.

AUTHOR: Bernice Williams (United States)

I was born in a small country town near Pittsburgh, PA, where I went to university and studied painting and sculpture. To be a painter was my dream! For several years I lived in Papua New Guinea and then moved to Sydney, Australia. In both places I worked with clay, mostly high-fired white earthenware, creating minimalist hand built forms. Eventually I returned to the U.S., first to New York City, and then to Chicago where I now live. I’ve come full circle and returned to my first love of painting, but now I paint with light!