Readers Digest
Digital Photography

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,

go throw your TV set away,

and in its place, you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”

Roald Dahl

With the takeover of technology, reading in short, quick, bite-size blurbs – texts, tweets, Instagram “stories” - has become the norm. Sitting with a beautiful, big, leather-bound book and luxuriating in a long afternoon of getting lost in a fantasy, romance, or drama is no longer as loved. What a tragedy!

Using a Nikon D3500 camera and Adobe Lightroom, this series of photographs entitled “Readers Digest” attempts to take the reader on an adventure. A depressed teen discovers a library – a treasure room of windows to other worlds. She is transported into another time, finds a path, and follows it to fantastical worlds of flowers, tree hollows, fairy cottages, and more.

Through the pages (pictures) of these worlds, the heroine discovers that there are two sides to every story. The inner and outer worlds of “good and evil,” “light and shadow,” and “yin and yang” play out. And just before she is taken under by what is most frightening – the shadow side within - she finds herself once again returned to reality; only now, transformed. The journey has widened her world, and opened her to new possibilities for all that life can hold…

“A reader lives a thousand lives before (s)he(they) die(s) . . .

The (wo)man(they) who never reads lives only one.”

George R.R. Martin