“There is beauty in everything around us, if we would just slow down and look,” Susan K. Friedland is an award-winning photographer and visual artist known for her ability to capture the unique beauty often overlooked in the ordinary.

Friedland’s work includes street-style and candid portraiture in both black and white and color, and southern and American streetscapes. She is inspired by words and the color red. A lover of horses, Friedland also has made a specialty of capturing the beauty and spirit of horses, which she rides as well as photographs.

Her art, which is frequently exhibited in the Atlanta area, has won numerous awards and has been featured in multiple publications and in private and corporate collections. Along with photography she explores other techniques that incorporate her photos, including encaustics, collage and collage assemblage boxes, mixed media painting photo note cards, photo giclee on canvas, and printing on textiles and metal, as well as occasional installation art. She is also a motivational speaker and has spent 10 years teaching art and photography.

Born and raised in Savannah, Georgia, Friedland’s work is heavily influenced by her upbringing amidst the artistic community there, as well as by her husband, Lance, their three children, Sam, Dave, and Mariah, and by her work with special needs children.

She graduated from Oberlin College with a degree in studio art and took masters level art courses at the University of Georgia, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and Savannah College of Art and Design (formerly the Atlanta College of Art.) She lives in Johns Creek, Georgia.