About Alice Wilkinson

I have recently moved from Deer Isle, Maine, to Thomaston, Maine. I have not yet settled in; I find that taking photographs is harder than i had imagined, requiring a certain comfort in the landscape. I lived on Deer Isle for 20 years, and I am not yet acclimated to being in a small town on a river. I will see what happens.

My primary interest is really in the contrast between what I expect to see, and what seems to be there.

Photographs do not record the truth. They only record what the photographer sees at that moment, through the lens, and that is what makes them both interesting and mysterious. You never see what happens in the next frame.

Most of my photographs are of ordinary stuff. Sometimes an ordinary scene becomes something else through the lens of the camera, and often what I see is not even what the person next to me sees.

I am very interested in color and shape, but the subject matter of my photographs varies widely—streets, stuff piled in a corner, things on walls, building, people waiting, even landscapes—in short, what I see.

Alice Wilkinson