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As a Colorado poet, essayist, and photographer, I seek the rhythms and gaps between the visual and the written image. Just as I seek organic form in my writing, I seek organic form in photography that arises out of the boundlessness of landscape and the temporal shapes of what inhabits them. Through brief moments of juxtaposition the inner life of being arises, beautiful and spartan in its temporality.  

My new book, This Visible Speaking: Catching Light Through The Camera’s Eye, is now available through the Lulu Bookstore as a paperback and through Amazon as a Kindle. This Visible Speaking is a hybrid collection of photo poetry and prose vignettes, suffused with the images of the Colorado I love, whether wandering bull elks at 9600 ft or cabbage white butterflies along the South Platte riparian. These images give rise to meditations on love and loss and beauty and on the voices of those early explorers of the daguerreotype and the photograph who, dazzled and wary, learned to fix the world in light.

This Visible Speaking creates a gorgeous polyphony of photographs, lyric meditations, and the voices of photographers. Image and text mirror each other, enacting the ways that the world of nature outside us can evoke and mirror our inner human life—our visions, loves, our losses. Like Georgia O’Keefe, Winograd says of her photos and forays into the wild, “I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way—things I had no words for.” Emily Dickinson writes of how “A light exists in spring” that “almost speaks to you”; in Winograd’s book, it finally does. This is a book to hold close, to travel with—and return to—for a very long time. 

—Angie Estes, author of Parole