For many years, my focus was to satisfy my intense longing to immerse myself in Africa and experience its wildlife.
To produce the images, I've drawn from a bank of material collected over the years so that I am not restricted to one country or to one time.
Elizabeth B. Henry
 
 
 

News, Past Trips and Exhibitions

   
  Zanzibar Visit  
 
 
 

Zanzibar still echoes of spice, of slave trade, of exotica. How do I relate the tangle of alleys, the status of old carved Merchant doors, of fans, of houses carved from live corral and where it has worn, the fossils show. In the country by the pale waters of the Indian ocean, the gallop of outgoing and incoming tide, sand like sugar, Red-Colobus monkeys in their tidy forest unique in all the world down the road.


  
 

 

  Ancient Gifts  
 
 
 

In mid September of 2006, before the rains, when huge numbers of animals congregate at the last remaining water holes, I plan to return to Africa. This time to Tanzania and the Northern Serengeti. Under the expert guidance of Richard Knocker, we will also be visiting the Sand River and the Selous Game Reserve, the largest in all of Africa as well as the Mahale Mountain area and Lake Tanganyika where there is a colony of chimpanzees that have been the subject of research over a number of years.


 

 

  
  "Eye on Eden"  
 
 
     
 

 

  
"Bewitching Africa, Eternal Eden"  

 

Photo essays of
Elizabeth B. Henry
Greenwich Arts Council, Greenwich, Connecticut
April 3-26, 2003
For more information call 203 622 3998
www.greenwicharts.org

  
     
 

 

  
Nature’s Best Magazine — Winter 2003  
     
 


Portraits of Africa
The Photographic Art of Elizabeth B. Henry

 

  
  Photography, like any other form of art, is a language used to express an inner voice. For photographer and artist Elizabeth Henry, that voice is one of passion for a land that words could never truly describe. In sepia tones that conjure the early days of Africa exploration, Henry combines her images of wildlife and landscapes to create powerful and symbolic portraits of a land as captivating as it is mysterious.

“Before my focus through a camera lens became a consuming interest, my artistic life was with a hammer, chisel, rasp and stone, trying to meet the challenge of sculpting animals. By osmosis, one’s eyes and creative intuition begin to be acutely aware of line, shadow, and dimension.

I often think of my compositions as ‘small worlds’—brief stories that took place in front of me, events often seen quickly and with great intensity. I want the viewer to step out from himself for a moment and accept the invitation to visit behind the frame, for not everything initially is seen at once in these ‘captured events’.”

“My images will hopefully underscore the vital importance of preserving Africa’s species and their environments that are so threatened.”
—Elizabeth B. Henry

Since 1981, Elizabeth Henry has exhibited in galleries across the country. She has held several one-woman shows and continually uses her work to benefit nonprofit organizations such as The Flying Doctors of East Africa and Dr. Iain Douglas-Hamilton’s Save the Elephant Tusk Trust. In 2003, she will have a solo exhibit of more than 30 photographs at the Bendheim Gallery in Greenwich, Connecticut.
(See announcement above)
www.NaturesBestMagazine. com

 
     

 

  
 
Entire site contents ©copyright 2008 Elizabeth B. Henry. All rights reserved. All Photographs are the property of Elizabeth B. Henry and are protected under United States and international copyright laws. The photographs, or any parts of it, may not be reproduced, stored, or manipulated without the written permission of Elizabeth B. Henry.