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| Dorothea Nahler by Nigel A JAMES |
The
Invisible Obvious
Growing
up by the side of a Corinthian lake was just the right place for
photographer Dorothea Nahler. It not only provided impressions of
ever changing beauty and currents of drifting emotional feelings, it
gave her much more as well. It provided her with an eye for the
seeing of the often invisible obvious. And this, in her future life
was to become the main stay of her own special work. Photos of depth
and outstanding simplicity.
Dorothea's
path to photography was long and stretched over years. As a young
girl, she thought and saw like a child and was keen to take snaps.
And then, with the marching of time came family, and her time for
herself became less. But her eyes were ever open, and her eyes were
ever seeing, and her time was ever coming.
And
then she discovered the power of creation in painting. At last, the
stored up images in her head were beginning to become real upon
canvass. And they were fine; but, her eye was still wanting, and so
it was that her mind went back to her childhood photography, which,
in its innocent way was the pureness and simplicity of her thinking;
and the pictures of then were the same as her seeing of now! Her new
camera was coming.
And
her photographic style is true to her feelings. Dorothea doesn't
alter her photos at all, she preferres instead to allow her pictures
to speak for themselves, and the things that they show are mostly
the common place items that are all too often overseen in everyday
life.
Dorothea
has become well known in Vienna, and her exhibitions have become
events to be looked forward to. And, the good new is there are more
on the way. The invisible obvious means more than we think, and
Dorothea has opened it up!
More
info – www.dorothea-nahler.at
