about
PAMELA COOPER-WHITE

Pam Cooper-White is the Christiane Brooks Johnson Professor Emerita of Psychology and Religion at Union Theological Seminary, New York, and also served for eight years as Assisting Priest at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City.  She first studied art in Swampscott, MA with Clayton Curtis and Richard Baldacci, winning the Wilhelmina Denning Jackson Art Scholarship, the Mary Chaisson Award in Fine Arts, and the Boston Scholastic Art Gold Key Award.  She majored in art at Boston University’s School of Fine Arts from 1973-74.  She works primarily in the medium of digital photography, as well as oil painting, drawing, and collage. She is an artist member of the Adams County Arts Council.  Her work has been exhibited in juried and group shows in Boston, Philadelphia, Gettysburg, Harrisburg, and New York City, in solo photography exhibits in Decatur GA, St. Petersburg FL, and Gettysburg (at the Arts Council, the Lutheran Seminary, and Federal Pointe Inn), and occasionally in the Gettysburg Times.  She is delighted to be a member of the Foothills Artists!

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"My first camera was a double reflex “Argoflex,” which my father put into my hands as a young teenager.  He was my first mentor in photography, and I have never forgotten his ability to see line, form, pattern, and meaning through the camera’s lens.  I find myself inspired by both urban scenes and the endless beauty of our Adams County foothills region.  I am drawn to images that show some kind of ambiguity (such as images that combine beauty and decay), or images that seem representational and abstract at the same time (such as close-ups of flowers, flames, and animals, and patterns in landscapes and buildings).  I also enjoy doing a bit of black and white street photography, and documenting the unexpected, wherever I may be."

Pamela can be contacted at pcooperwhite@gmail.com.