Art History: Even as a child, Julie DiBiase had a camera in hand at all times. “It was my prized possession,” she says. An award-winning graduate of the Propersi Institute of Art (now known as the Connecticut Institute of Art), she looks for photographic opportunities everywhere for her landscape and still-life photos. DiBiase prefers the imperfect and unadorned — old trucks, barn doors, architecture, seashells — “quiet beauty that may not be evident,” she says. But her work has changed since she donned a cap and gown in 1990. “More mature, serious and contemplative,” describes DiBiase. “I have developed a much more discerning eye, looking beyond the obvious. Sometimes it is just as important to know when not to take a photo as it is when to take one.”
The Piece: “One Shell,”
digital photography, $150,
matted in an 11×14 frame, www.jdibiasephotography.com
Inspiration: DiBiase happened upon this shell while walking on the beach in Old Lyme, CT. “It caught my eye the way it was nestled between the two rocks,” she says.
