
2024 is starting off as a busy fine art photography season for Susan K. Friedland as several of her works have been chosen for exhibit.
In the first of three new upcoming shows, Atlanta Photography Group's Choice 2024 exhibit, which opened February 6, includes her photo "Black Ledge Lobster Pound" in its main gallery at Ansley Mall, 1544 Piedmont Ave NE, Atlanta. Taken on the Maine coast late last summer, the photo rings true to Susan's aesthetic of beauty being in the eye of the beholder. What appears to be a broken down old shack is very much open for business and is decorated with colorful buoys that add color, life, and a bit of whimsy to this otherwise gray building.
Come March, Women In Focus will mount its annual Women's History Month exhibit, this time at the Buckhead Library, 269 Buckhead Ave NE, Atlanta, including two photos by Susan "Free Dry" and "Have A Cigar," most recently shown in APG's Belonging 2023 exhibit mounted late last year. The first is a snapshot into the lives of two twentysomethings having a laugh while doing their chores at a laundromat, while the second is a peek into a tobacconist's shop where a group of people are enjoying conversation with a good cigar. Both photos were taken through windows and provide a glimpse into people's lives in a simple moment in time. The show will run for the month of March.
Finally, the Professional Women Photographers organization in New York will mount a show at the Soho Photo Gallery called Studies In Still Life. Susan's photos "Summer Sunflowers a la Van Gogh" and "Frozen Leaf" are in the exibit to run from March 26-April 1, 2024 at the gallery at 15 White Street, New York, NY 10013. The sunflowers in Susan's photo, taken at Anderson Sunflower Farm in Cumming, Georgia, are wilting and abstracted, while the leaf under the frozen ground is both dead and brown.
"There's only a brief window when the sunflowers are in bloom," Susan explained, "and I wanted to go at the end of the season to capture the beauty of the wilted flowers." The dead, brown leaf in the other photo is something someone likely would have stepped on and not even noticed. But in Susan Friedland's camera lens it was an object of beauty lying just under the melting ice. "Beauty is in everything around us," Susan always says, "if we would just slow down to see it."
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