Australian-born Marie Keech is a fine art photographer living in San Diego. California.
With a fine arts degree, she has pursued her interest in photography over many years, working in darkrooms with both B&W and color film. She currently works using the digital darkroom, to elicit the effect she is looking for from her images; images that reflect her interest in contemporary architecture, mostly within an urban environment.
Statement
Capturing the aesthetic or beauty of the moment is a shared ideal for many photographers.
Within the realm of architectural abstracts, that moment for me comes when I see unusual forms, texture, patterns, rhythm and color in today’s urban architecture. Not all this architecture, but some of it, strives to project an elegance, a sweeping change which differentiates it from the mass of concrete structures surrounding it, a vision of light, grace, space and function which interrupts the urban sprawl.
Much of my work is abstract, done in B&W, to better emphasize and capture the drama and graphic nature of these forms. However, some address a more recent trend of introducing color to enliven buildings within the city’s core; others, in color, are more conceptual in nature.
2023 Snowcreek Collaborative Exhibition. The Photographer’s Eye: A Creative Collective. Escondido. CA
2022 Spotlight. Black & White. Issue # 155. October 2022. p .112-115
2021 6th Biennial of Fine Art & Documentary Photography. FotoNostrum. Barcelona.Spain
2021 Brutal too. 16th Annual Black & white Spider Awards. Nominee in Architecture
2021 Out of Alignment. 7th Fine Art Photography Awards. London.
Nominee Abstract Art.
2020 On Edge 2: Geisel Library, UCSD. 15th Annual Black & White Spider Awards.
Nominee in Architecture.
2020 Earth Centered 2020 International Juried Exhibition. Juror Aline Smithson.
Center for Photographic Art, Carmel. CA
2020 Metamorphosis 1 & 2, No Walls. 29th Annual Juried Exhibition
Athenaeum. La Jolla. CA
2020 Merit Award. Black & White Special Issue, #140 August 2020
p.158-159.
2020 15th Julia Margaret Cameron Award’s Non Professional Section
Honorable Mention, Architecture & Interiors Category
2020 15th Julia Margaret Cameron Award’s Non Professional Section
Winner. Fine Art Category
2020 Portal. Spotlight. Single Image Winner Architecture/Interiors.
Black & White., Issue 139, p.35.
2020 Seeing Eye. Spotlight award. Single image contest.
Black and White. Issue 137, p.222.
2019 Presenter at Open Show at MOPA. (Museum of Photographic
Arts) San Diego, CA
2019 Inviting the Light, 5th Fine Art Photography Awards. London.
Architecture Nominee
2018 Staccato, Athenaeum's 27th Juried Exhibition, La Jolla, CA
2018 Cloud Cover, Athenaeum's 27th Juried Exhibition, La Jolla. CA
2018 Calatrava Curves, B&W 2018. Gallery Exhibition. PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury VT
2018 On The Edge, Fine Art Photography Awards. Architecture Nominee
2018 Ode to Martha Graham, Fine Art Photography Awards.London. Fine Art Nominee
2017 In Broad Daylight, Seeing in Sixes 2017. Lenswork Annual Juried Publication
2017 Foggy Morning 1, Online Gallery, Members Juried Exhibition, 'The Quiet Landscape'. PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT
2016 Vortex, Digital Art Guild, 'Intersections 2016'. City Gallery, San Diego City College
2016 Aroused, Digital Art Guild. 'Intersections 2016'. Luxe Gallery, San Diego City College2