Ann Arbor to exhibit at SugarWood




FARMINGTON — Farmington photographer Ann Arbor will be exhibiting her work at SugarWood Gallery during the month of August. An open house reception will be held Friday, Aug. 2 from 4 to 7 p.m., and Saturday, Aug. 3 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 248 Broadway. The public is invited.

Ann Arbor is a photographer and poet who grew up in Mexico, Maine, worked in the local paper mill, and attended college in Massachusetts. She has taught English to students from pre-kindergarten to graduate school, coached college basketball and served as foreign expert at four major Chinese universities.

As a photographer she has published work in national and international magazines ranging from The Chicago Tribune to Geo (Germany). She has had a number of one-person shows. Her photographs are held in private collections in Great Britain, Mexico, China and throughout the United States.

“I don’t take photographs, they are given to me by my subjects,” Ann says. “They happen in co-operation with the weather, the light, the camera, and the people involved. They depend upon trust, a deep respect for the natural world, and a healthy community. When people live in healthy, natural communities, the fire that burns in them can show its light. Some might call this “soul.” Gerard Manley Hopkins, my favorite poet, called it ‘inscape,’ the inner landscape of each individual, each place.

“I try to find that inscape in the portraits and scenes I photograph. I search for familiar experiences expressed in fields and on faces, a feeling of shared values in the various cultures around me. I want to gaze into the faces of others and learn to understand what brings tears to their eyes, what creates their wonderful wrinkles.”

To see some of Arbor’s work, go to www.sugarwoodgallery.com/store/manufacturer/ann-arbor.

Arbor’s photographs will remain on exhibit and avail for purchase through the month of August.

SugarWood Gallery is open Monday thru Friday 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.



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