Sharon Tenenbaum
Sharon was educated as a civil engineer. Her love for structures is reflected in a vast body of works that celebrate more than mere architecture, but rather, the art in architecture. As an artist, Sharon has won numerous international photography awards; as an educator, she has taught group workshops from New York to Melbourne, as well as online. See more at www.sharontenenbaum.com
When Sharon Tenenbaum stands in front of a building, or a cityscape, or a detail of a structure that has caught her eye, she doesn’t see what ‘normal’ people might see. Instead, her photographer’s perception kicks in, and immediately her eye begins to strip the scene of anything extraneous – her vision allowing her to see the bare bones of the construction and how that can be applied to an image.
That the Vancouver-based photographer has a background in engineering doesn’t come as a huge surprise. Her area of expertise was environmental engineering, and it’s a career she followed for some seven years before photography came calling. Feeling unfulfilled in her job, she handed in her notice and went travelling around south-east Asia with a point-and-shoot camera her father had given her. ‘I had no clue about
