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Rhona MacKinnon Photography Portfolio | |
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Featured Guest Photographer Rhona MacKinnon As a way of encouraging young photographers who may have no web site of their own, I have dedicated some space on my website to allow talented individuals to showcase their work. I am really happy to be able to display the work of Rhona MacKinnon. Rhona was born on South Uist and now divides her time between the island of Harris, and the city of Glasgow. I met Rhona at the Skye Photography Festival and thought her work was astonishing. Self-taught, Rhona's work draws on the inspiration of the dramatic landscapes of her island home, but her gift is an uncanny ability to find some order in the chaos of nature, and even more remarkably to capture it in an image. Her work reminds me of the work of Eliot Porter, (see 'Nature's Chaos', Eliot Porter & James Gleick, Viking Books), a photographer whose work I have long admired. Where many artists are overwhelmed by the grandness of the landscape and struggle in a futile attempt to capture something that speaks of their feeings of awe, Rhona is drawn to a more intimate connection with her subjects, capturing shape, form, detail, colour and also humour. Often in landscape photography it's the more subtle details of the image that defines the subject most successfully, and Rhona is blessed with a remarkable ability to see beyond the obvious, to read the scene in its complexity and vastness and dilute its essence to the simple. Thats a real gift. She is still only a young woman, with a long career in photography ahead of her, but her work is already attracting critical acclaim, and many individuals have her work on their walls. One can only guess at where her prodigous talent will take her as her ability matures and her unique way of seeing is given free rein. Follow the link below: | ||
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