Kerri Sabol

Kerri Sabol is a nature photographer, though her lens has a tendency to veer elsewhere. While she loves shooting along the trails and waterways that weave through state and national parks, wildlife management areas, and her own backyard, she'll often venture into a city, a local town, or the rural backroads that surround her to discover something new; something different.

Kerri loves old things, especially old architecture. She lives in an area surrounded by history and takes advantage of the old buildings and past industry that is a part of her environment.

But for Kerri, old architecture also encompasses ruin which plays a large part in her work. Ruin displays itself as acts of nature, as acts of man, and it reminds us of what was and what remains. Kerri calls these images her dark art, often manipulated beyond the original photo.

Kerri began her photography journey photographing orphaned animals at a local refuge. She has had her boots stomped on by pot-bellied pigs and pecked at by aggressive roosters and geese. While crouching on the ground, cats have used her back for elevated views of their pens. Emus adore shiny things and have bobbed curiously at her camera and lens as she cringed at having to find a replacement. And t...

Self-educated

Wednesday Afternoon; National Show - Connections; Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts; June 2009

Shadow Cat; Regional Show; Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts; October 2009

Little Woman in a Big World; National Show - For and About Women; Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts; March 2010; Honorable Mention Award

Abandoned; National Show - Viewpoints; Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts; March 2011

Aliza; International Competition - Animals; Light Space & Time; March 2011; Special Recognition Award

Dinner For Two; International Competition - The Beauty Around Us; The World Wide Photography Gala Awards; April 2011; Merit Award

Contradiction; National Show – Natural Light; Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts; March 2012