Colin Payne photography show opens at the Nelson Library
By Contributor
Colin Payne’s new exhibition of photographs at the Nelson Public Library is more than a collection of fine landscape photographs.
What Payne brings to his exquisitely balanced compositions is an eye for the remarkable in nature. Whether the subject is weathered deadfall, a fall reflection, or the movement of water, these works are a celebration of texture.
The love affair with nature and photography began, for Payne, in his home province of Newfoundland. An avid outdoors enthusiast, photography began to play an increasing role in his experience, leading him to study photojournalism at Thompson Rivers University — the start of a love affair with the myriad applications of photography, and with British Columbia.
A job with the Nelson Daily News came up, and a move to Nelson where “I fell in love with both my wife and the place,” he says.
After the closure of the NDN in 2010, Payne launched his own freelance business, determined to stay and raise a family here.
Since then, he has won photography awards in Canada and the U.S.
“My work is inspired by both the incredible raw beauty that surrounds me in the Pacific Northwest, as well as the countless impacts of humanity’s presence on the land,” he explains.
Exploring the bigger questions of consciousness and transience, Payne endeavours to find an intuitive response to his subjects, in which “everything around me drops away and my mind is free to create.”
Colin Payne’s photographs are on display at the Nelson Library through September and October.
Photo Caption: Newfoundlander Colin Payne has a photography showing on now at the Nelson Public Library. — Photo courtesy Louis Bockner
