Lisa Laible

Artist Statement

Light is my biggest muse… or obsession. Anywhere or at any time light influences my visual and visceral draw and I am constantly compelled to harness or capture that light.
I marvel at the smorgasbord of light I encounter in the varied places I’ve wandered, its fickle and transformative affects on its surroundings. Having lived abroad in a very vertical city, I witnessed the fantastic play of light trickling down, bouncing off, reflecting, defining; and how it can compose or alter an experience. In most of my photos, it’s the layers of the encounter which have grabbed me.
I shoot on 35mm, appreciative of the depth and tangibility of film which lends itself to revealing a real and sometimes-slightly-flawed nature of things.
I am equally awed by light’s play on a city street as well as a far eastern alley, a New England shore at high tide and on all phases of flowers.