Diana Yakowitz’s photography is more than just recording the visible. More than shades and shapes they are a visible interior journey she has followed revealing her inner self. Her new exhibition opens this Friday, March 26, at the unique KUZU gallery here in Tucson.

She shoots few frames and often waits for some recognition to occur. Diana studies her images afterwards and often discovers something that influences her work later or an overlooked image which she views with new eyes and interprets its true meaning.

The images she chose for this show were taken in the past year with a few exceptions.  Most of the  images are from the Pacific Northwest near Seattle and have in common some degree of human interaction or intrusion on nature. If you read the titles you will better understand the journey of discovery she has been following.

As a child, she opened the back of her first camera and accidentally exposed all of the film. She stated “that unfortunate experience made me look upon photography equipment as something to avoid, overcome, put up with, pull one over on, cheat, use, abuse, circumvent, and then finally befriend.”

Since that first learning experience, Yakowitz’s photographic works have been the result of her interior journey through the seventies, influenced by the sixties, honed in the eighties, on pause in the nineties, and with many forks and dead ends in the ‘roads’ leading up to today.

In searching for an overall title for her new exhibition, she kept coming back to the image above titled “Something to Hold Onto.” For her, it expressed frustrations and her longing laid bare. She found the title fit not only this image but also the entire show with all illustrating, sometimes subtly, this expression in a literal or metaphoric way.

She told me she couldn’t think of a better expression for her relationship with photography itself than “something to hold onto.” It seems to say it all, a true reflection of her inner self, reflected in her unique photographs.  As you view her exhibition you will understand her visible journey and see the inner journey she is still following.

If you would like to see a much larger body of her work  and her journey through life visit this site:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37498647@N06/3617797619/

The exhibition of Diana Yakowitz’s new photographs is being held at one of Tucson’s newest unique gallery, KUZU, located at 1991 E. Ajo Way, Suite 161.

Opening hours: 6:00PM -9:00 PM

For more information call: 520-624-7290

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