Where It All Started
Having a camera at hand is nothing new to me. I have always created photography albums and books of my life. Our home is filled with them.
Then in 2019 my entry, “Windows”, was accepted into the Crocker-Kingsley Exhibition. To be included with such talented and accomplished artists felt like a turning point for me.
It was then that I started to think more seriously about what I was doing with my photography. It was also at this point I started proudly referring to myself as an artist.
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“Windows” was taken inside Café de l’Epoque looking into Galerie Véro-Dodat, a “passage”or glass-roofed shopping arcade which flourished in early 19th-century Paris. It is shown in the short video clip above.
As I was walking through the cafe I glanced through the cafe’s window, into the arcade. Without stopping to think, I put my camera to my eye and clicked.
Sometimes the best images are completely unplanned.
Nancy Chadwick is a fine art photographer based in Davis, California.
She has spent over fifty years recording her life and travels with a camera - first as an art student at Purdue University, and later as the quiet second thread running alongside a forty-year career as a psychotherapist.
Since retiring from clinical practice in 2021, Nancy has returned to art fully, camera in hand. Her collections are drawn directly from her travels: repeated safaris across Africa, seasons spent in Paris and Venice, and the golden landscapes of Northern California she calls home.
What distinguishes Nancy's work is her process - each image begins as a documentary moment in the field, then is transformed in post-processing into something closer to painting or drawing, blurring the line between photography and fine art.
