Title: Clara's Kitchen
By: Bernadette Humphrey
Medium: Silver Gelatin Print
Dimensions: 7.5” x 7.5”, matted and framed to 13”W x 16”H
Price: $300

I grew up on eastern Long Island, New York. Both sides of my family recorded every event with a camera and so I was destined to become a photographer. My first camera was a mail ordered Brownie I bought for 50 cents and two Cheerios box tops. The addiction began and led me to an MFA in Photography from Georgia State University.

I am also the Director of the McClellanville Arts Council, and in 1994 invited Kitty Couch and Pinky Bass to exhibit their Erda Series in our Arts Center. After this exhibition, pinhole photography became an obsessive journey for me.

In 1996 I studied pinhole photography with Eric Renner and Nancy Spencer at Penland. Kitty was kind enough to allow me to stay in her guesthouse in nearby Burnsville, and it was in her kitchen that this pinhole photograph, Clara’s Kitchen, was created.

It is easy to acknowledge that Kitty loved and respected her piece of this earth. I am donating this photograph to help keep a part of this earth a place that reflects the kind, gentle, creative, inquisitive, laughing spirit that is still Kitty.