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.

 

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 that was only half of the fun. There were dogs and horses and mules and cows. Goats and llamas and turkeys and rabbits. A sole pheasant that wandered in and stayed. Once she had mastered this small animal kingdom, she ventured out into the wild and began her path toward fine art photography.

 

Kerri is an award-winning photographer and has had her art displayed in various venues and private collections. She lives with her three cats and writes dark fiction when she’s not producing photographic art.