Behind the role as a librarian, Sarah Brown is a photographer. She has worked with the Palm Beach Photographic Center in West Palm Beach, Florida; Special Collections, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida; the Museum of Glades, Belle Glade, Florida; the Marion Center for Photographic Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico; and assisted Lauren Greenfield with her social documentary entitled, “ Thin.” Sarah’s photographic work has been exhibited widely, most recently her well known landscapes of Lake Okeechobee and Loxahatchee River.
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Photography is both technical expertise and an intuitive subconscious process. After completing my BFA with David Schienbaum and learning from the Santa Fe photographic community, I fell into the work of exhibiting and commercial work. I spent several years studying Contemplative Photography and fine art printing with George DeWolfe-learning to use mindfulness, listen, and see from inside out to create a photograph. Prior to that photographs were about capturing; my work is about creating through my subconscious. With undertones of commentary on the photographic process and contemplative practice, my work presents spaces we all can connect with; the stories and memories that live in our subconscious and intertwine us together.
Over the past decade and half, I have sought out landscapes and spaces to balance my passion for photography and the artistic process. Often swamp tromping in the Loxahatchee or airboating to Lake Okeechobee tree islands, I find the landscapes are elements of space, place, and home. And it is the story of these landscapes that have me playing in light with paper and camera, tracing memories.
