Artist Profile: Marianne Fraser
I lived in Holland for the most part of my life, where I worked for many years as a cooperate photographer. My clients were a diversity of companies, from the ‘low profile-world’ of Public Transportation to the refined and polished environment of the World Fashion Centre in Amsterdam. In 2003 my family and I moved from the hustle and bustle of western Holland to the peace and quiet of rural Nova Scotia in Canada.
Ansel Adams once said: ‘I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful and an endless prospect of magic and wonder.’
I find this magic and wonder when I look through the viewfinder of my camera and let time stand still. When I take the time to stop and look with fresh eyes, unhindered by knowledge or preconceptions, magical beauty unfolds.
It is a choice and a different way of looking at the world. The reality of greed, violence and destruction is overpowering us everyday, but there is also an almost forgotten reality: there is still beauty and harmony to be found all around us. Sometimes we have to look a little harder and dig a little deeper, but it is always there. I try to use my photographs as counterweight to the negativity that surrounds us and to convey my perception of the world and my feelings of awe and joy to every one who sees my work. It will be the ultimate compliment for my pictures when I succeed to do this.
‘The world will be saved by beauty.’ Beauty has a very important role to play in our journey through life. If we give it the place it deserves, mankind will become more human and the world will be a better place because of it.
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