Photographer Susannah Sofaer Kramer

The Ojai Photography Club welcomes photographer Susannah Sofaer Kramer to its Tuesday, November 15th meeting. The meeting will begin at 7:00 PM, at Help of Ojai’s Kent Hall, 111 Santa Ana Street, Ojai, CA. Visitors are always welcome.

Sofaer will share four digital slide presentations: The Beautiful Faces of Atria, San Simeon and the Elephant Seals, Desert Light of Joshua Tree and High Flight Poetry.

A self-taught photographer, Sofaer is an award-winning fine art landscape, nature and portrait photographer. She was born in the proverbial trunk of an English theatrical family. Her father, Abraham Sofaer, was a well-known classical actor and her mother was a principal dancer in London’s West End Theater.

Sofaer has an extensive biography as a dancer, singer and actress. She danced with the Bolshoi Ballet while a member of the Ballet Concerto of Los Angeles. She was a dancer/singer in the original national touring company of My Fair Lady and in the movie Westside Story and a principal in the musical The Boy Friend with Joel Grey. In 1963-1964 she was a member of the New Christy Minstrels.

She willingly gave up her career to raise a family, but always needed a creative outlet. As her children grew her childhood dream of owning a horse became a reality and she became a competitive dressage rider (ballet on four legs), and started photographing friends and their mounts at horse shows. The magic of seeing a print develop in the darkroom caught her imagination and inspired Sofaer to learn and explore what else she could do with a camera. Her passion for photography expanded to encompass portraits, both people and animals, with the emphasis on capturing and revealing the inner life of her subject.

Later creative explorations led to landscape and nature photography. In Sofaer’s own words. “I love being in the countryside, not only photographing the beauty and grandeur of nature but also those small intimate moments that tell the story of a time and place. Composing a shot is like setting the stage, then one only has to patiently wait for the light and the drama to occur.”

For additional information about the Ojai Photography Club visit: http://ojaiphotoclub.com/ For Susannah Sofaer Kramer, visit Sofaer Photography at: http://www.sofaerphotography.com/