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- Yellow Stairs
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- Yellow Arrows
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- Painted Pickleball
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- Smoke Stacks
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- Kaleidoscope Shadows
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- Railyard
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- Primary Colors
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- Blue Boxes
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- Color Curves
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- City Sky
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- Illuminated Trees
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- Yellow Stairs #2
Martha Volcker
Urban Color Revealed
In the city color can hide in plain sight.
The images I take as I explore my neighborhood capture a view of the urban environment, without people and without clearly identifiable landmarks. It’s the everyday infrastructure of Boston that fascinates me; the highway ramps, rail yards, steps and nondescript buildings that are a mundane but essential part of the urban landscape.
Often when I explore a street that I’ve never been down before I capture some of my favorite images. I look for pops of color, but also for how they are enhanced by light and shadow and by geometry and pattern. Through my images I have gotten to know new neighborhoods and gained an appreciation for how color transforms our experience of place.
Artist Bio
Martha Volcker is an emerging Boston based photographer, whose focus is the urban landscape. She looks for unique perspectives, where light, color and pattern transform and highlight the beauty that exists in seemingly mundane structures. In the essential infrastructure that supports urban living, such as highways, bridges and railway yards, she looks for viewpoints that alter your perception.
Martha has taken photography classes at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the New England School of Photography, the International Center of Photography, and the Griffin Museum of Photography. She received a B.A. in History and Government from Wheaton College (MA) and an MBA from Emory University. She worked in the financial services industry for many years.