Biography

Photography enables me to break down the boundaries between my internal and external experience. In a world of infinite images successfully capturing those that are personally compelling is magical. As I indulge my passion for travel the experience is intensified by the search for images that distill the moment, reflect the colors and textures of a place or that separates the dynamic detail from its surroundings.

I tend to continuously scan my environment for the arresting picture even if I'm not photographing. I am constantly evaluating what I see, isolating the component parts, gauging changing light and luxuriating in the movement of color through my life. I am, therefore, rarely bored. My primary challenge artistically is to capture visually the emotional content of what is this incredibly rich and complex world in which I live. When I succeed the exhilaration is indescribable.

Barbara Levy Kipper is Chairman of the Chas. Levy Company, the 115 year old business her grandfather founded. The company distributes books to mass-market retailers nationally.

Barbara's true passion for photography was ignited in 2002 after a frustrating six month stint trying to be a watercolorist. She ultimately decided it was an art form for which she had little talent. Photographic color and composition somehow came naturally although not without their own frustrations. It has been a joyous relationship ever since. That there is also attendant gear, books and color accuracy to research just adds to the enjoyment.

Barbara is married to clinical psycholigist David Kipper and has two married daughters Tali and Tamar and a grandaughter Anya.

"Seeing the world utilizing a camera enables me to experience it more intensely. The acts of selecting and isolating elements add to my appreciation of its complexity. I find it essential, however, to put down the camera from time to time and be fully present in the moment itself without having something between me and that moment."