Susan Saudek a photographer based in Washington DC.
I am a photographer on a journey in search of light, shape and color.
The journey has no fixed destination.
No matter where I find myself, I find the unusual in the ordinary.
I set out to photograph a new location wandering for hours
looking, sensing and absorbing.
At the end of the day, I often discover my contact sheet
filled with portraits of strangers, images of hands at work,
shadow plays on a wall, patterns found in the gritty cement of the subway that become abstract art, or
a leaf that begged me to move so close it no longer was a leaf.
The excitement for me is the discovery of a moment or a subject that others do not see.
Each of these images is a facet of my artistic vision.
These are the things that stop me short in my tracks and demand to be photographed.
Photography is my gift for life.