About

My first exposure to photography was in college, in the late 60s. My classmates and I wandered around campus with our bulky school issued cameras, experimenting with different f-stops and shutter speeds. Back in the darkroom we developed our own black and white film and printed the images. After college I moved to Boston and lived on Beacon Hill. I saved up to buy a Minolta SLR film camera. On the weekends I explored the Haymarket, the North End and Back Bay taking photos wherever I went. Over the years I enrolled in photography courses in Boston and Cambridge, and in 2005 I spent a memorable week at The Photographic Workshops in Rockport, Maine. On January 1, 2010, I challenged myself to take a photo every day of the coming year. No rules or restrictions applied. This project turned out to be a great exercise in finding photographs in ordinary places: during my morning commute to Lexington, on a trip to the supermarket, or in the backyard after a snow storm. By the end of December, I had 365 images that captured the year. I live in Concord MA and most of the photos for the Accidental Landscapes series were taken in Concord, in places you pass by every day. On a walk around Annursnac Hill during the Pandemic, I noticed the newly installed guard rails were rusting and in the process, magical landscapes of trees were beginning to blossom. In the parking lot behind Debra's Natural Gourmet an enormous blue, paint-splattered dumpster collected construction waste and offered endless landscapes of sea, sky, meteors and under water serpents. A storm drain on Keyes Road collected leaves while the water below reflected the sky. The Sandscape series was shot on vacation in Carlsbad, California. The beach there has black sand mixed in with the lighter color and lots of rocks at the water's edge. The result is an ever-changing array of images that are created as the water floods the beach then recedes with each wave. At low tide the sand-scapes remain, but only until the cycle begins again as the high tide returns.

Edie Lipinski