Vol. 11 Presenter: Kate Russell
Presenting
Collaboration and Combustion
Summary
We digest more images a week than words. A picture is worth a thousand words. Visuals transcend language barriers. The tools that are used to create imagery and content are very powerful tools in this modern time. Good light and production can change an undefined scene into magical fantasy. Light and production are a few tools in this world of visual communication. Yet, who gets to have, hold and wield those tools seems to so often remain in the hands of very few. Imagine a world where everyone had access to these same tools, what stories and messages would we be hearing then?
Kate explores what it means to share the skills of commercial image-making with friends, neighbors, and artists, to collaborate. Using light or location to add visual punctuation to an idea. Elevating the unexpected.
In this time, when each individual authentic voice is so important, Kate is discovering what it means to invert traditional frameworks of image-making and invite new voices to create, art direct, make—using the process of collaboration to break down barriers, lines, and boundaries that traditionally define who we are and who we aren’t.
Bio
Kate Russell is a photographer based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She strives to show her subjects with simplicity, respect, and curiosity while simultaneously always working to elevate the unexpected. The subjects she has covered are as varied as her background and include action, architecture, art, circus, fashion, food, friends, life, and travel. Kate also worked with Santa Fe’s Meow Wolf since 2011 as an artist, collaborator, photographer, and Director of Photography. Her photos are known to define the Meow Wolf brand. Her work has been featured in Art Forum, High Fructose Magazine, New Mexico Magazine, Rolling Stone Magazine, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and many others.