Susan Bouton

Susan is a fine art photographer and owner of Oak Pointe Photography in Niskayuna, New York.  She holds a B.A. degree from the University of Rochester in Art History and is a graduate of Albany Law School.  After many years of practicing law, she began three years of formal studies in photography at the International Center of Photography in New York City and completed classes in numerous areas including Street Photography, Portraiture and, most significantly, a Long Term Project four term course culminating in the publication of a book - The Sound of White.

In addition to coursework at ICP, Susan participated in weeklong interisve workshops at international locations including Morocco, Istanbul and Scotland with National Geographic photographers Joe McNally and Ira Block and a session in Marseille, France with ICP instructor Stephanie de Rouge.  Most recently, she studied multiple-exposure and intentional camera motion photography with British impressionist photographer Valda Bailey.

It is through the lens of nature that Susan has found it possible to express what she terms "the poetry of the in-between" - the moods and sensibilities that we particularly encounter when we find ourselves in the middle of change.  In her images, she seeks to depict an atmosphere reflecting breath - motion - change.  In winter, for example, nature and spirit begin to freeze - to numb - as the storm comes in to obscure.  The expression of such amorphousness is also expressed in morning fog, sea spray, the flow of water and reflections.