about the images

A lifelong pleasure in finding patterns and shapes in serendipitous arrangements of objects and people brought Peggy to photography.

Some photography aficionados delight in discovering social criticism or psychological insights in photographs. She thinks it's enough to find in photographs shapes or colors or lines in felicitous configurations. If the viewer finds a message in the shapes, fine--but photographing messages is not her goal. She agrees with Henri Cartier-Bresson, who said that to take photographs is "to find the structure of the world--to revel in the pure pleasure of form," to disclose that "in all this chaos, there is order."

Her favorite subjects are ordinary people, and people by definition have something to say. If you listen carefully you might hear the peoples' voices, but most important to her is that you see the picture.

Her joy in photography is to bring together the elements of visual art in validation of the ordinary.

all photographs © 2005, Peggy J. O. Schultz, except that the photograph on the right is by Jerry Schultz