© 2003 Toni La Ree Bennett
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Toni La Ree Bennett has led a random life, spending most of it in most of the
Western United States. She attended the University of
Washington (Seattle) where she received her Ph.D. in English and a B.A.
in Italian. Her verbal work has appeared in Puerto del Sol, Hawaii
Pacific Review, Journal of Poetry Therapy and Viet Nam Generation
among other publications. She has several poems included in the
anthology The Muse Strikes Back published by Story Line Press. Her
photography has appeared in Pierian Springs, Atomic Petals, American
Muse, and now Tryst. In addition to trying to shoot, enhance, and
organize thousands of digital photos, currently she is pursuing a degree
in Computer Information Systems and Web Development and works as a
financial, information manager at a major university. She founded Uccelli
Press in 2001 and is editor of the online quarterly,
Branches.
Email toni@tonilareebennett.net
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Artist's Statement
I have been passionately taking photographs for over 25 years. With the
advent of digital photography, I am now seriously working with my
photographs as an art form. I take photographs of everything I see, from
spectacular architecture to pencils on my desk, and I see photographs
everywhere. My photographs are an assortment of black and white, color,
sepia, and digitally manipulated. I have always been obsessed with
recording, whether it be audio, computer, diaries, copy machine, or with
camera. I suspect it has something to do with my unreliable memory;
one of the reasons I take photographs on my travels is so that I can see
where I've been and know where I've gone. It might also have something to do
with wanting to have the last word on reality.. I am also a writer and
believe that the marriage of words and images is a particularly fortuitous
one. To that end, I edit an online literary/fine art journal, Branches, in
which all the verbal pieces are paired with a visual one.
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