Beth Shaw Portnoi

bpshawphoto@yahoo.com

The camera is an extension of my artistic eye and the tool I use to capture the frames of life that would otherwise be lost in the speed and frenzy of life's daily drama. Caught up in daily life, people don't really see the world around them. Ordinary things become forgotten, and photographs can record these moments and preserve them forever.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             My camera's lens provides a magical and inexplicably secret passageway to help people see, notice, and be observant of the details, contrasts and ironies around us by capturing fleeting moments.

I want to document our world and our lives - perhaps it is my desire to slow down time, because it seems to run away so quickly.

I have studied at the International Center for Photography and exhibited in numerous shows in and around NYC, including the Museum of Modern Art.