Artist’s Statement – Annette Kasle
For me, photography is all about storytelling. While my images preserve my own stories and memories, my goal is to providing viewers the opportunity to envision their own stories. The interplay of light and shadow, color, texture, and point of view are my tools to stimulate the viewer’s imagination. I use the same principles whether photographing both landscapes and portraits. I seek inspiration from both my travels as well as my everyday world to create images that connect, communicate and inspire.
Portraits provide an excellent opportunity to depict my own relationships and reality while they offer the viewer encouragement to imagine the subjects they would choose and the approach they would take to project their own relationships.
Artist’s Bio
Annette and her family have been residents of Port Washington for 44 years and value the beauty the town has to offer along with the town’s dedication to the arts. In May 2019 she received a Doctorate in Hebrew Bible from the Jewish Theological Seminary following a fulfilling career in law and health care policy. Although she came to photography relatively recently she shares her enthusiasm with her husband, Daniel who has been a successful amateur photographer for many years.
Serving on the Executive Committee of the Art Guild of Port Washington Annette feels part of Long Island’s rich art community and is especially committed to the organization’s social outreach programs. She is a member of the fotofoto Gallery and has exhibited there as well as at the Art Guild, the Alex Ferrone Gallery in Cutchogue, St. Francis Hospital in Manhasset, the Praxis Gallery in Minneapolis and the SE Center for Photography in Greenville, SC.
Selections of her work can be found on Instagram @annette_kasle