Corinne Ann Bowen
Corinne Ann Bowen (b. 1982) is a multidisciplinary artist and writer based in Rochester, New York. Working primarily in film photography, her work explores the quiet sacredness of everyday life, often through shadow, texture, and ephemeral light.
With a background in creative direction, online community, and education, Corinne’s artistic practice is rooted in ritual, rhythm, and emotional truth. Her photographs are devotional in nature, often capturing domestic and urban environments in transitional states: dawn, dusk, between silence and sound, and between memory and the moment.
Her work has been exhibited in local shows and shared through her Substack essays, zines, and photography website. Corinne’s recent series documents the sacredness of ordinary life, capturing objects, gestures, and architectural forms that echo universal human stories. She views her camera not as a tool of capture, but of reverence.
Corinne lives with her family, where photos, laundry, and books accumulate like prayers.
Artist Statement
My photographic practice is an act of quiet witnessing—an invitation to slow down, follow my intuition, and honor what often goes unnoticed. I am drawn to the ephemeral and the intimate: early morning light, shadowed corners of buildings, abandoned pathways, and objects that seem to remember something.
I work primarily with analog film and minimal digital intervention. The delay and discipline of this process support the kind of stillness and fulfillment I seek, both in myself and in the image. Rather than capturing moments, I try to listen to them. Each photograph feels like a pause in the breath of the world.
My images explore themes of longing, memory, and sacred ordinariness. They are rooted in real locations but often abstracted by light, reflection, or perspective. I’m especially interested in how a place holds emotional resonance, and how human presence can be suggested without being shown directly. Many of my photographs include my own shadow or silhouette, not as a subject, but as a quiet witness.
I consider my work a devotional practice. It is informed by a personal rhythm: walking through the city at dusk, returning to the same street corners, revisiting light at different hours in my home. My camera becomes a partner in seeing more clearly—and in honoring the poetics of everyday life.
These photographs are small thresholds: gestures of attention, remembrance, and love.
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