Deborah Willis

Linda Foard Roberts - The Alchemy of Life Deborah Willis

Linda Foard Roberts: Passage is a compilation of five series, created over the past ten years, by North Carolina-based photographer Linda Foard Roberts. Roberts works in enduring genres--landscape, portrait and still life--and photographs her 21st-century surroundings using 4x5", 5x7" and 8x10" cameras and vintage lenses, some over 100 years old. The result is seemingly eternal, timeless, black-and-white photography that exploits the peculiar ability of the camera to produce images that are both extremely present and yet suspended in time. Over the past decade, Roberts has been exploring the inevitable movement of time in life, focusing on memory and the acceptance of transience and imperfection. The photographs in this volume, Roberts' first monograph, are meant to be read like visual lines in a poem, metaphorical and layered, with each photograph bestowing a deeper meaning upon the next.