Blue Glass, 2021
"My response to writer’s block was to buy a small camera and travel for a year, hoping my photographs would spark my poetry when I returned. Instead, I fell in love with photography. I realized that the eye focusing on those images in my poetry was the same eye looking through the lens. I think Wright Morris, the Nebraska writer and photographer, said it best: 'I don’t give up the camera eye when I write, merely the camera.'” - Rebecca Norris Webb
Originally a poet, Rebecca Norris Webb has published three photography books that explore the complicated relationship between people and the natural world—The Glass Between Us, Violet Isle: A Duet of Photographs from Cuba (with Alex Webb), and My Dakota, which interweaves her text and photographs from her home state of South Dakota.My Dakota was selected as one of best photography books of 2012 by PDN, Photo-Eye, and Time.