Please join us on Sunday, June 14th at 4pm for the next in our series of free "Perspectives on Photography" lectures. We are delighted to welcome Jane Fulton Alt to our gallery for this in-person event, titled "Threading the Needle: The Camera as Companion".

After the discussion, Alt will be signing copies of her latest book, "Still Life: A Photographer's Journey Through Grief and Gardening". Following the unexpected death of her husband, Howard, Alt assumed responsibility for the nascent ecosystem he had planted in response to his growing concern over climate change. What began as daily stewardship gradually became a source of creative focus and sustenance amid mourning.

"I was never a gardener," writes Alt, a statement that marks her abrupt turn toward caring for a landscape still in formation. If the garden represents new terrain, the camera remains constant, "a potent combination in adjusting to this new life." Together the photographs, and accompanying texts, form a body of work in which personal loss finds expression through close attention to the living world.

Born in Chicago, Alt is an award-winning photographer who explores the universality of the human condition and the non-material world. Alt received a BA from the University of Michigan and an MA from the University of Chicago. She studied at the Evanston Art Center as well as at Columbia College and the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work is held in numerous permanent and private collections, both in the US and overseas, as well as in many special library collections. She is also the author of several books. Alt resides in Evanston and, her beloved adopted city, New Orleans.

Image:"Persian Buttercup"