Dawn Winters

Artist Spotlight: An amateur photographer from Hopedale on capturing the beauty of the familiar and the fleeting.

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An icy landscape with a dramatic sunset in tones of blue, purple, pink, and orange.

Dawn Winters is an amateur photographer from Hopedale who enjoys taking pictures of people, landscapes and night scenery, specifically the northern lights.

Landscape photography allows her to capture common landmarks with various lighting and colour arrangements. It gives her pride to be able to capture the beauty of places that people will recognize, especially places where people have grown up or that are known spots for harvesting wild food.

An icy landscape with a dramatic sunset in tones of blue, purple, pink, and orange.
Dawn Winters, December 21, 2021. COURTESY THE ARTIST.
A view of a rocky area jutting out into the water. A figure at the edge of the land is silhouetted against a brilliant orange and gold sky.
Photograph by Dawn Winters. COURTESY THE ARTIST.

 

Portraits bring Dawn joy with her work—allowing her to capture familiar, happy faces and special moments when the subject is least expecting. 

Capturing the northern lights is what Dawn enjoys the most. Being able to capture an image that is never the same, beautiful every time and depends on the time of year and weather is what drives Dawn to not take the moment for granted. Sometimes capturing that perfect shot means jumping out of bed in the dead of cold winter to get that once-in-a-lifetime image, worth every minute.

A triptych of landscape images arranged atop each other. Each image shows a body of water with large chunks of floating sheet ice, in tones of blue, and purple, with pink hues in the sky.
Photograph by Dawn Winters. COURTESY THE ARTIST.

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