Biography
Inspired by a long tradition of family artists,from my grandmother, Sally Victor, a famous milliner who designed hats for everyone from first ladies Eleanor Roosevelt and Bess Truman to Princess Grace of Monaco; to my mother,artist, author and illustrator, Joan Berg Victor, my work is influenced by my relationship with the two worlds that have informed my life – the man-made world of New York City and the natural world of the Catskill Mountain region of New York State.
My photographs seek to engage the viewer in a fresh form of expression where the camera is a tool for painting photographs and is used as a brush to capture my abstract and deeply personal perspective on color, texture and movement of everyday objects.
The photographs, in their celebration of authenticity, sensory subtlety, and discovery, stand in stark contrast to society’s desperate striving for reinvention,
newness and youth. In the lineage of photographers such as Aaron
Siskind, Harry Callahan and Edward Weston, my photographs
question the indoctrinated definitions of beauty, and illuminate the
conflict between the perpetual existence of the natural world and
humankind’s struggle against, and recognition of, our impermanent
place in it.
