Kathy DeCarlo-Plano
Urban Awareness
I’m fascinated with the inherent beauty and geometry of the city. However, what is even more intriguing is how we, as humans, can lose ourselves within our own minds dreaming of either the future or the past and transport through this beauty without noticing the subtlety around us. The texture, strength, arrangement, thought, and soul left within the structures by their creators is so pervasive…yet often unnoticed. With camera in hand, I strove to capture the incredible dichotomy within this human condition first-hand. It is in studying closely individuals in this state, that allows me to strive to transcend this condition and simply appreciate the incredible beauty of our surroundings within the moment. Urban Awareness is a call to awakening to the here and now, the beauty of the moment.
I feel passion for blending scale and geometry, while using available light, shadows, and leading lines to draw the viewer into looking at a city in a more deliberate manner.
Artist Bio
Kathleen DeCarlo-Plano is a street photographer whose graphic images capture the beauty and spontaneity of the human experience in the city.
DeCarlo-Plano’s photography is informed by her work as a psychologist. She finds inspiration in observing, interpreting, and photographing how people relate to one another and to the environment.
Her work will be exhibited at the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA, in the spring of 2020. DeCarlo-Plano has studied at the New England School of Photography in Boston, MA, and the Griffin Museum of Photography.