Frances Hughes Photography

Bio and Exhibitions

Photography hooked me from an early age. My father and grandfather were both avid photographers, and I admired photographs before I was old enough to take them. My first camera was a gift from my dad in 1985, a Nikon N2000 SLR with a zoom lens. Technology has changed dramatically (and I am amazed by what it makes possible), but what draws me to photography has never changed. Photography focuses my attention; it frames and reveals a hidden world of ‘found geometry’ — seldom-seen patterns and compositions that surround us. Writers are always encouraged to write what they know; photographers should do the same. We should take pictures of what we have learned to see deeply. What I most see when I look through my lens are the tensions and intersections between man-made curves and lines, between nature and the built environment, between renewal and decay, between the immortal image and the reality that everything fades.