Statement:
This photo was taken from a high mountain looking down into a valley in the Dolomite Mountains in Italy. It was late in the day so the shadows were long. The sun highlighted the branches of the lone tree and cast a tree-shaped shadow – perfect for a black and white image.
Bio:
Myrtie Cope has been focusing on nature, landscape, and architectural photography since graduating from the photography program at Rocky Mountain School of Photography in 2008. She is honored to
have photos in several private and public collections around Atlanta including the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Airport and Emory University Hospital Tower. She has won numerous awards for her work
which has been widely exhibited throughout the United States and internationally. Her winning images have been exhibited in the Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers at Fotonostrum
Gallery in Barcelona, Spain, multiple times. Her body of work, “Nature Embroidered”, was one of the projects featured in All About Photo Magazine’s Nature issue in September 2023.
Ms. Cope received the Denis Diderot Artist-in-Residence grant at Chateau Orquevaux, France, in 2021 and received a second residency at Atelier AIR in Dangeau, France in 2023. The residencies allowed
her to focus on and refine her work and experiment with new techniques as well as traveling around Franceand photographing new things. In 2024, Ms. Cope was awarded the Williams Family
Distinguished Fellowship in Photography for an artist residency at Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences where she continued her work in embroidered photographs.
