Oct. 7, 2002 – "Close to Home," an exhibition of photographs by Carol Beckowitz, opens Oct. 17 at the V.I. Cultural Heritage Institute. The landscape and nature photographs were shot in the U.S. and British Virgin Islands as well as on Puerto Rico.
Beckowitz, who won the institute's first photography contest, "Last Rites," has a great passion for the natural world. She said she is constantly struck by the beauty of nature's most fundamental objects: the molecular unity of moving water, the aggregate of minerals that color stones and the astonishing variety of plant life.
Her dreamy and poetic photographs will be on display through Nov. 22 at the institute located in downtown Charlotte Amalie at 1826 Kongens Gade, also known as Education Street.
Beckowitz came to the Virgin Islands as a disaster relief worker after Hurricane Hugo in 1989. She lives on St. John with three cats and a menagerie of goats and wild donkeys, which are often the subjects of her photographs. Along with being a photographer, Beckowitz is a writer, naturalist, explorer and licensed emergency medical technician.
The opening reception begins Oct. 17 at 6:30 p.m. and is free and open to the public. For more information, call 774-9537.
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