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Hudson Cantos

Hudson Cantos  is a multi-volume photobook set of eight portraits of Hudson, New York.  Each Canto, while thematically different, still manages to reflect what I love about Hudson—the diversity of the built environment and its multiplicity of class, culture, and identity.
While the complete set of photobooks in their clamshell case can be viewed at the Hudson Area Library, at yesthatkarendavis.com, they are presented as a series of interactive flipbooks. 

 

Still Stepping: A Family Portrait

 by Karen Davis
Text: The Morgan Orton family
Foreword: Karen Davis, Preface: Alison Nordström, Ph.D. Introduction: Jeffrey A. Lieberman, M.D.

Spanning 22 years, my book, Still Stepping: A Family Portrait, is a word and image portrait of a family as it cruises along, gets clobbered by a treacherous childhood illness, and then moves forward.
Amidst the quotidian of life, my photographs and the family’s words—from letters, an essay, a documentary, and interviews—provide an intimate window into a world turned upside down, then righted by two shaken but determined parents.

Reviews:
Lenscratch     What Will You Remember

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Warren Street Blues, One day in the time of the Pandemic

A 3 minute slide show accompanied by slow blues  piano (James Booker style) by Andrew Campbell

In September 2020, six months into the pandemic, I accepted a challenge. I was to select a color, walk outside with that color in mind then come back and write about it. I chose the color blue and walked out my door onto Warren Street, Hudson, the main street of town. But I took my camera with me instead of a “virtual pen.” The exercise was revealing. The focus on a single color meant I was on a hunt, not just a stroll. I slowed down and saw my environment with new eyes. The result is Warren Street Blues, a three minute slideshow with slow blues piano accompaniment, a way to share the street as I saw it that day.

Strangely Attracted

Strangely Attracted is a series of paired images that synthesize two photographic impulses.  As I find correspondences between a) my photographs of the quotidian and b) details of fine art paintings, I discover latent possibilities. Everyday life becomes elevated and worthy of note.  The painted hands take on a hint of familiarity—more akin to the everyday.  The resulting composition, the diptych, creates a space where conversation takes place.