ON WINGS LIKE EAGLES
As Publisher and Editor of Portico, a magazine dedicated to literary and visual stories, Karen Gilder learned to recognize exceptional images. After closing the magazine at the end of 2019, the lure of photography returned. From her first film camera, a Pentax K1000, Karen has always sought to find images to both enhance and disclose stories, images that in speaking to her might have greater reach: capturing the magic in moments and landscapes and faces. Trained in photojournalism at the University of Southern Mississippi, her photographic style seeks to suspend specific time and certain place, to create the magic of a moment. Returning to photography, Karen thought people and street scenes would capture her attention the most. But, as with most things, you find comfort around you; you understand the places and grasp the lives around you; you recognize the slightest seconds of change in that world…and the stories they tell.
