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As the granddaughter of an antique art dealer, Sarah Brown heard stories and recollections of American history and art throughout her impressionable years. Those lessons play through her photographic work as she explores the relationships between the environment, inhabitants of landscapes, and the nature of man. She explores themes heavily influenced by abstract realism of presence, identity and history. Her passionate pursuit into the arts brought her to study traditional photography in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Upon returning home to South Florida, she continued her commercial and fine art work, incorporating digital photography within the ethical parameters of traditional photographic principals. Using this “boundary” as a ladder, she uses only her camera and basic software to process images. Her uncanny ability to push the edge of fine art traditions within the medium affirms that photography deserves respect as a fine art. She transforms the mundane, and this is evident in her contributions to Contemplative Photography, while creating a new path for abstract realism. Her current studio work, “Presence,” incorporates the traditions of Japanese flower arranging into still lifes, referencing the mastery of painting and light.

You can see more of Sarah's work on her site, www.sarahbrownimages.com, and www.sbiportraits.com.

If you or someone you know would like to be considered for our Featured Photographer weekly, email me at kara@pixiq.com for more details.