Lifelong New Orleans resident - A consummate student of love, art, beauty, nudes.
My relationship with photography began when I started participating in a woman's circle centered on the practice of Watchfulness and Transparency. I began exploring that which resided in my interior and a call to submission, spirituality and sensuality made their presence known; marking my heart and eyes ---- and the world was forever altered and transformed.
I am influenced by the music of Arvo Part, iconography, vision of silence and reverence on Mount Athos, Russian Orthodoxy, the Russian Empire, ancient ruins, crumbling monasteries and convents, survivors of the Holocaust, the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Fr. Jeanne Pierre de Caussade's, "Abandonment to Divine Providence" and the poetry of Pablo Neruda.
Inspiration comes from the soul, prayer, meditation and sensual impressions of the body, heart, and mind.
A state of longing fills me and I suggest it is in all of Humanity --- but, held in secret recesses.
The camera, for those who are before it, becomes the trusted Instrument, allowing one to let go, finally.
2018 The Print Swap - two images selected for consideration in "The Other Art Fair In London"
2018 "The Magic of Black and White in 27 Photos"
2018 The Print Swap - two images selected for consideration in "The Indian Photography Festival"
All images © 2018 Leslie Tabony. All rights reserved.