ABOUT MARGE WASSON
"What are you trying to do?" asked my skeptical spouse while we were riding up in the Eiffel Tower elevator one dreary February afternoon. He couldn't imagine what I was trying to photograph with my little point-and-shoot camera through the grimy elevator windows. "I was right there, but I never saw that," he said when he saw the prints.
The way my camera helps me capture something that would be so easy to miss in the noise of living—that, for me, is the joy of photography. A photograph can open your eyes to forms and textures that are always around you but that you ordinarily just don’t see. That can be particularly striking in black and white images. And in color it can evoke a mood or a feeling or a new way to see something altogether commonplace. In all my photography, I work to capture strong lines and shapes, focus tightly on a detail, find a pattern, shift away from a typical view, or even see the movement in a stationary object.
Since 2011, I have exhibited regularly in solo, juried, non-juried and invitational shows. My photographs are found in private collections and commercial spaces throughout the U.S. I serve on the board of an area art league and often work with a small photography exhibition group called COMPOSITE.
The way my camera helps me capture something that would be so easy to miss in the noise of living—that, for me, is the joy of photography. A photograph can open your eyes to forms and textures that are always around you but that you ordinarily just don’t see. That can be particularly striking in black and white images. And in color it can evoke a mood or a feeling or a new way to see something altogether commonplace. In all my photography, I work to capture strong lines and shapes, focus tightly on a detail, find a pattern, shift away from a typical view, or even see the movement in a stationary object.
Since 2011, I have exhibited regularly in solo, juried, non-juried and invitational shows. My photographs are found in private collections and commercial spaces throughout the U.S. I serve on the board of an area art league and often work with a small photography exhibition group called COMPOSITE.
In 2023, with my book partner Amy Lance, who has written stunning poems to pair with my photographs, I released my new book. WONDER...photographs, poems, and a game about ordinary things has been a great joy to create. Very exciting! SEE MORE HERE.