About Parrish Dobson
Parrish Dobson has been photographing the landscape for over twenty-five years. She works unobtrusively, holding great respect for the mysteries of light, moment, and place. Both her color and black and white work have been exhibited and collected throughout New England.
This website includes selections from her extensive color portfolio of photographs made in the Penobscot Bay region in Maine. The series is entitled "Events of Light". Her black and white landscapes, finely printed on silver gelatin papers, include a body of work called "Places of Memory." Made in France and Italy over the past ten years, these images are united by their poetic exploration of voices of the past, the sense of lives lived long ago, still sensed in the present. The most recent series, "An Urban Wild", explores a narrow piece of conservation land in Belmont Massachussetts. An adjacent small hill of silver maple trees is threatened by the possible development of a 290 unit apartment complex. These photographs look at the tangled beauty of a small piece of wild in the heart of the greater Boston area.
Parrish Dobson is a life long artist and teacher of photography; she heads the Arts Department at the Buckingham Browne & Nichols School in Cambridge, MA.