From here and elsewhere

Katherine Hibbs was born both feet clung on two continents, between Europe and the United States, from a mediterranean mother and a father originally from Missouri, who experienced the 1929 Great Depression during his early years. Shunted back and forth among two cultures, the artist always had a keen interest in refinement and elegance but also a passion for wide-open spaces, and a pronounced curiosity towards the unknown elsewhere.

 

The 80’ s and 90’s fashion years have been a pure delight, inspiring and colored by great fantasy; at that time, we had the opportunity to turn our dreams into reality.
However it lacked this extra touch of soul, this need to stick to reality and to human
values. Becoming a photo reporter and experiencing distant cultures contributed to a
personal refocusing. All of a sudden, team work was replaced by a solitary quest,
unexpected encounters, landscapes and faces frozen in a camera frame. Her tossed around
childhood resurfaced, shaped as an unwavering second skin.

"Every single country that I have or will visit, are no accident."

Her memories and childhood imagination bound to her camera shooter interfered as her own « Cantilene path » ; Armenia, both soft and rugged, Indonesia with its ritualized daily life, or Japan torn between tradition and modernity have been great sources of inspiration.
All these unique scattered people and souls gave her lessons in living and contributed to her personal enrichment.

But what will tomorrow bring us since its existence is fragilized by human actions ?

Photography does not only embody a witness role or a social link, but also carries a
message for which we should feel responsible.

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Shouldn’t we transmit to our children and a collection of images they will do their best to perpetrate and avoid to get themselves tangled up far from a better world ?