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Evelyn Nodwell
Photographer
Canada
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Statement
First come the acts of seeing and experiencing - a human moment, an interaction, a heart-stopping play of light or color, a mood, an atmosphere. There quickly follows the impulse to capture the moment or inspiration. Then comes the desire to communicate and share it, to tell a story.
At times I am “surprised by joy” (C.S. Lewis), and photography is one way of acting on that surprise. This often means moving quickly to capture a fleeting instant. The resulting image itself can be a surprise - when it holds the moment that spoke to me, or when it has captured something even more.
At other times the process of photographing requires patience - waiting for the light to shift or for someone to move into the light, for some elements to separate and become clear, for action to populate the setting.
And at yet other times, it means working a situation from many different perspectives and selecting the images that speak most strongly.
The most exciting and challenging subject for me is people. My ideal photograph tells a story about life. Rarely do I control a situation. I look for what is happening, and engage in the life around me. Every “portrait” of mine in this website was taken in a spontaneous moment, never posed.
Biography
As a photographer, Evelyn has exhibited in Vancouver, Canada and in China. She has had prints in the Burnaby Art Gallery Sales and Rental division, and has had photos published in Canadian Geographic Magazine, The Province newspaper and Vancouver Coast and Mountains Tourism publications. She has given photo workshops, and judges for camera clubs. One of her images scored 4th out of 280 submitted by photographers from across BC at the 2013 judged North Shore Challenge.
As an Anthropologist, Evelyn Nodwell has worked in British Columbia and India. Based on her research in India, she produced two television documentaries in collaboration with Knowledge Network.
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