Juliet Harrison

Artist’s Statement

Although I have always had some kind of a camera in my hands, I did not come to take photography seriously until partway into my adulthood. I was given my first 35mm camera for graduation with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology. From that point on I saw myself in the images I caught in the viewfinder. I was living in New York City in the late 1980’s and I spent a great deal of time photographing the buildings I found around me. Peeling paint shadows of fire escapes. The textures, light, geometry of the city absorbed me. In 35mm, I worked in color and black and white. I found I was greatly influenced by the works of the many modernist photographers, painters and sculptors

I returned to school in 1989 received a Master’s Degree from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. It is there that I honed my skills and learned to speak with my camera. And it is also there that I started a fledgling interest in photographing horses. Some years later, I have purposefully combined my love of horses with my need to communicate through my artwork.

In an age of the digital camera and digital print, I still work in 35mm. I still use mainly B&W. And I still do my own hand-printing in my basement darkroom. And when looking at the body of work that I am producing, I still see that I am working with textures, light and geometry. But now I am working with horses. Living testimonials to nature’s architecture. I am a Fine Artist, working in the medium of photography and with horses as my primary subject matter. Most of my work is self-generated, although I enjoy the opportunity to do commissions as well. My work has been shown at various juried exhibitions throughout the United States, as well as being published in Equine Art publications, and is found in private and museum collections Internationally.