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Carolyn DeMeritt
Throughout the years, DeMeritt has continued to explore her interest in portraiture as a vehicle toward a better understanding of the complexities of being human. In this work, the artist achieves power through restraint, a necessary balance between the camera's eye and the unique attributes of each sitter. As Ken Bloom of Landmark Arts in Texas wrote, "Carolyn DeMeritt makes discoveries in people and great photographs of their spiritual and corporeal selves." She captures the quality of being human. These portraits are evocative and haunting.
Books by Carolyn DeMeritt As Long as the Waters Flow: Native Americans in the South and East (1998)
Links View the photographs of Carolyn DeMeritt at http://www.fstopcharlotte.com/carolyn_flying.htm.
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Carolyn DeMeritt is a photographer of great range and depth, whose photos are in numerous personal and corporate collections. Her body of work includes several series of photographic images, one of which was a body of powerful portraits of Native Americans that accompanied the text of Frye Gaillard's book, As Long as the Water Flows: Native Americans in the South and East. Other series of photographs such as Broken Dolls and When I Was Little . . . I Thought I Could Fly delve into the human condition. She has won national acclaim for her film, Just As I Am, screened at the San Francisco International G/L Film Festival and the One World Screen Fest in Vancouver, Canada. It was also nominated for a Regional Emmy. Her film Give Me My Flowers won the Film Makers' Award at the Charlotte Film and Video Festival. Her photographs are included in the collections of the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and Mint Museum of Art.