Kamala Nahas
Artist from Ventura, California
Kamala wasn’t always a photographer. She was a daydreamer, staring at clouds all day long, filling film with different versions of the same image. She was the student who noticed everything, who fell in love with the natural world, who loved the way a spiderweb framed the edge of a doorway. She was a wife, and her husband teasing me because or vacation photos never had him in them. She was a mother, her children full of mess, and laughter, and love. Her camera was filled with photos of her children and their friends, holiday parades, birthday parties, costume contests. She found her way back to nature, craving the capture of organic forms. It didn’t matter if it was those first rolls of film, or a birthday cake. She realized that everywhere she went, her camera came too. She was many things. But she was always a photographer.