morning fog Photograph

Karli Ruscoe is a fine art photographer living in Greenville, North Carolina. She was born in 1974 in Vermont but relocated to Florida at the age of 4. It was as a young child growing up in central Florida when Karli captured her first black and white images. SLR in hand, standing on a sun-drenched porch of an old plantation house, she was found. A local photographer, Anna Tomczak, lead a small group of young artists through the discovery of light in a local elementary school photography club. At the age of 11, two of Karli's first photographs were select for the 1985 gallery exhibition entitled "Frozen in Time". It was the porch image though that graced the gallery invitation. In the years that followed, photography served as an escape for Karli. Feeling unfulfilled and a bit lost in her mid-twenties, she toyed with the idea of pursuing a formal education in photography. After completing a course at her local community college, she entered several images in a regional art show, where she received an honorable mention nod for "best in show". Encouraged, she applied for and was accepted into Parsons School of Design in Paris, France in the Fall of 2001. She was sitting in a photography class in Paris on that fateful day of September 11th. Feeling shaken by the events of the time and unchallenged by the course content, she became an art school drop-out. The streets of Paris then became her institution of higher learning before returning to the states later that winter After many years of ignoring her talent she is now allowing her purpose to be fulfilled by creating beauty and releasing love through her images. Her equipment has varied over the years and includes everything from a traditional SLR, a disposable camera, a point and shoot from the lost & found box at a Paris hostel, a DSLR, to now the convenient iphone. Her style has also evolved over time from very traditional full framed uncropped black and white images to vivid manipulated iphonographs.