Drawing with Light

The works of Ann Petruckevitch

Ann Petruckevitch: Summer

Photography—drawing with light—uses light to record an image using various methods, including digital, magnetic, camera-less, and analogue. Ann Petruckevitch uses an array of techniques to explore her interest in image interpretation. At the heart of what she does is a thirst for experimentation. She challenges herself to create images that attempt to capture the subject matter's depth, shape, and visual impact by presenting them on media, enabling an organic exploration.

I consider myself to be a photographic artist in the sense that I use photographic media such as camera-less, film and digital approaches to observe and interpret visual contexts in a more abstract and ethereal way, perhaps playing with objective definitions and representing them more subjectively to the viewer using vibrant colour or timeless black and white photography.

Ann Petruckevitch: Poppy Heads

She has received numerous awards over her career, including Julia Cameron, Pollux, London and New York Photography, Muse Photography, and reFocus.

Technological changes are transforming the photography landscape, offering new tools and opportunities while presenting challenges that photographers must navigate. Digital photography and the smartphone can be said to have democratised photography. But, for the photographer, the main questions are what to exclude from and what to include in the frame. The artist's role is to create the definitive image, perhaps overlooked by many save for her. Emotional depth and storytelling are essential elements in shaping the final image.

Ann Petruckevitch: Poppy

Ann's way is to invite the viewer to witness some of the subtle unseen details of their environment. Nature forms an integral part of her life; by definition, it embodies the physicality of being part of this world. Her deep understanding of nature's fragility and its ability to survive mirrors the vulnerability we feel daily as humans.

Many of her photographic projects originate from a desire to invite the viewer to witness some of the subtle unseen details of our environment, whether it is an offbeat street scene, a conceptual observation of the natural world or a more intimate study of a person's life and how they function within it.

Ann Petruckevitch: Transition