Liesel Kershoff – Landscape Photographer
Liesel Kershoff has a passion for landscapes.
For a few seconds in a day nature becomes quiet and the sky lights up with color. It is during these few seconds that she strives to capture the perfect light; so she can record on film the masterpiece of a fleeting moment in time that many of miss due to our busy lifestyles.
She grew up in the small Overberg town of Caledon, and even though she received no formal art training growing up, the intense desire to capture special moments on film, kept burning inside her until finally, in 2004, she gave in to it and enrolled in a home-based photography course. Three years later she sold her business to become a full-time photographer.
Her work is currently (from 28 May 2011 till 27 June 2011) being exhibited alongside John Gate, Neil Crighton, Martin Mitchell, Therese A Bergqvist & Mary Owen at the fotoskolaochgalleri in Boliden near Skelleftea in the North of Sweden.
“Liesel Kershoff may use a camera and a tripod to make her images, but in spirit she is more like painter. Like Banes and Pierneef, who would take their easels out into the veld, Liesel spends many hours in remote locations, watching the light and waiting for the right moment to press the shutter button. And, like a landscape painter, there is a degree of subjective interpretation in her work.” Jon Minster (Weg/Go! March 2011)
For more info or to contact Liesel Kershoff, visit her website.
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