Keri Dietrich Photography

Photography has always been a part of my life from the time I was a small child. My Mom would sit me in front of a sheet in the basement and take picture after picture changing the settings on her Pentax K1000 with each frame. I always acted annoyed by having to sit still and hold up note cards with the different settings on them, but secretly I couldn't wait to see them when they came back. My first camera was a little 110 automatic and I would pretend I could change the settings with every shot. Every time a roll of film was developed I was like a little kid at Christmas, waiting for the magic (which mostly turned out to be blurry shots of the ground or up some unsuspecting soul's nose). The pursuit of the "perfect shot" has stayed with me throughout my life. When I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia in 2009 and ultimately had to quit working, photography was there to pick up the pieces of my shattered life. It's been my therapy, my friend and my silent partner. Waiting in the wings for the days when I felt good enough to shoot or sitting idly by, silently waiting, without judgement when I didn't. I look for the beauty in life now, one frame at a time, one day at a time. My perspective in my photographs is meant to be whatever the viewer wants it to be. Hope, wonder, sadness, happiness or bringing back memories long forgotten...