About

Laurie Bullard has pursued her love of photography for over 40 years. Her equipment has evolved from her first camera, a Brownie Box film camera, to SLRs to digital. Her work has evolved from black and white to color. Laurie explains, “Processing my own black and white work was about the challenge of creating art through contrasts of lights and darks, textures and shapes. Later, using color film, the challenge became using the added dimension color to enhance the graphic quality of the piece.”

In the early 1970s, Laurie photographed weddings, parties, and portraits of children, adults, families and pets. Her photographs have been published in the Duck’s Unlimited Annual Sportsmen’s Report, and "Flying Your Way", the in-flight magazine of Air New England, as well as other small publications. Throughout the 1980s Laurie was the featured photographer for the Waterfront Historic Area League’s “New Bedford Sightings” section in the Soundings newsletters, and the photographer and faculty adviser for the Friends Academy yearbook, “The Amicus”. Most recently, Laurie has participated in several local juried shows. She donates her art to numerous non-profit organizations and has been the volunteer photographer for two local non-profits, the Coalition for Buzzards Bay and The Women’s Fund. Her photographs are included in a number of private collections throughout New England.

In her pursuit, Laurie has taken numerous courses to enhance and improve the quality of her photography. She attended a week-long workshop in Santa Fe taught by veteran National Geographic Magazine photographer, Robb Kendrick. Laurie says, “I was pushed well beyond my comfort zone and asked to produce work I didn’t think I could. I have always felt that the photographs in the National Geographic Magazine were the ultimate. And I considered it a privilege to work with one of the magazine’s best.”

Today, Laurie’s photography is about finding and capturing a rich detail or spot of color in her subjects – ordinary, everyday things. She is inspired by renowned photographer Frederick Evans who remarked in 1908, “A perfect photograph is one that perfectly records, reflects its subject; gives its beholder the same order of joy that the original would.” Laurie takes that quote a step further, “I want the viewer to pause a moment, to look, see the details and the beauty and thus, feel joy.”