In his The Defence of Poesie, the English Renaissance poet Sir Philip Sidney wrote “Poetry is… to speak metaphorically, a speaking picture…” Margaret B. Ingraham views photography in a similar way; that is, speaking metaphorically, she sees photography as silent poetry. Many of the images that fill her poems were first framed and captured through the lens of her camera. With it, she studies light and shadow, examines the nuances of color, investigates the interplay of shapes, plumbs the depths of space, looking intently on creation’s exquisitely written sonnet sequences.
Galleries:
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Antipodal Light: New Zealand Beheld
This Commonwealth of Light: Scenes from Virginia
Wings of the Morning
Writ in Water
Impressions
Birds of the Blue Ridge