I am very pleased to announce that for our next Photo Chat on July 17th, we are chatting with Suzanne Mathia. I know many of you have followed Suzanne on social media over the years. Her work is incredible, and she is going full steam ahead, non-stop. We have a lot to talk about with Suzanne, and she will be sharing her travels and experiences photographing the people and lands of Northern Arizona and the Navajo Nation. Although her photography and workshops take her all over the world, she has a real affinity for the Native people of the Southwest and has spent much of her time with them.
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About Suzanne
Suzanne is a professional freelance photographer, author, and instructor whose work regularly appears in Arizona Highways Magazine, as well as numerous national publications such as National Geographic, Outdoor Photographer, Digital Photographer, and calendars for the Arizona Highways, Grand Canyon, The Nature Conservancy, and Global Action Team and Smith SouthWestern.
Her work, celebrated for its excellence, adorns corporate and private collections alike.
Born and raised amidst the green rolling hills of the English countryside is now completely at home surrounded by the arid desert and swirling sandstone of the Southwest. She finds Arizona a land of intense beauty and preposterous contradiction.
Her photographs capture the diversity of waterfalls, snow-capped mountains, autumn leaves, and desert sands, from the magnitude of the immense landscape to the smallest, most discreet of details. The desert can be unforgiving of even the smallest errors, treating the unprepared harshly. But, for the few with passion, those who are willing to begin their trek at the end of the road, the secret world of the Southwest is revealed. Suzanne loves to challenge the ruggedness of the land, the great distances to be traveled, and intense weather conditions to capture images of Arizona and the Southwest that expose its many treasures and extremes.
Suzanne’s adventurous spirit and technical prowess allow her to unveil the Southwest’s hidden gems, presenting them in a light that beckons the viewer to explore further. Her work is not just a collection of images but an invitation to witness the magic and majesty of the natural world.
Her images reflect her keen curiosity, patience, and ability to see the world and its magic places in new and creative ways.
In an effort to learn as much as I can, I have to remind myself…….. “It’s important to take bad pictures. It’s the bad ones that have to do with what you’ve never done before. They can make you recognize something you hadn’t seen in a way that will make you recognize it when you see it again.” ……..Diane Arbus
All the technique in the world does not compensate for the inability to notice
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July 2024
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