Lisa Beskin is a photographer from Belchertown, Massachusetts concerned primarily with water as object and medium. During the warm months, she photographs beneath the surface, capturing the world so few of us visit. Fishes, turtles, grasses and reeds are an otherworldly scene, unconcerned with life on land. During the winter months, she photographs the water from above, in its frozen state. In her own words:

“Like photography itself, ice gives the illusion of stopped time. But streams of air bubbles seemingly halted on the way up are really in slow, endless motion and flux, like everything everywhere around us. Ice watching is about scale as well as time; the views in its depths are simultaneously microscopic and galactic. As our New England winters get ever shorter and warmer, ice-hunting becomes a more rarefied prospect—one of climate change’s many sorrowful consequences.”

Lisa Beskin’s photographs have appeared in jubilat and UMASS magazines and have won an award from the Audubon Society of Massachusetts. Past and upcoming exhibits include Teolos Gallery, Surface Noise as part of the Louisville Photo Biennial, the Rendezvous, the Hitchcock Center, the Sunderland Public Library, Cooley Dickinson Hospital, and A3 Gallery in Amherst. Lisa received an MFA in English from the University of Massachusetts; and her poetry has appeared widely in literary magazines, and she published collections with Lynx House and Factory Hollow presses.