An Ekphrastic Book of Photography, Poetry, and Prose Based on the River and Mountain Meadow Landscapes of Colorado.
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.
Find This Visible Speaking: Catching Light Through The Camera’s Eye at Lulu Books.
Awards and Recognition: An Honorable Mention in Art for the 2025 Eric Hoffer Book Awards and Shortlisted for the Hoffer Grand Prize, a Finalist for the 2025 National Indie Excellence® Awards for photography, a finalist for the 2025 Best Book Awards for nonfiction: cross-genre, a 2025 Book Excellence Award winner for Photography, and a finalist in poetry for the 2025 Colorado Author League Awards.
Eric Hoffer Art Book Award Judges’ comments: –
The unassuming look of this little volume belies the power of the imagery it conjures. As its author reminds us, Dante wrote of the purest kind of beauty being so vivid that one can almost hear it speaking. With that concept in mind, this book pairs a selection of the author’s vibrant photographs, each a seemingly simple mechanical rendering of the natural beauty it captures, with an entrancing, lyrical journal entry. The poetry of her own voice and vision is further enhanced by related quotes from noted photographers and writers about the mystery and magic of capturing light and life in photographs. It all interplays in such an evocative way that one can indeed begin to image the words and hear the photographs.
2025 Eric Hoffer Book Award Honorable Mention and shortlisted for the Eric Hoffer Grand Prize. #HofferAward
Rocky Mountain Reader Review
Cormorants, hawks, foxes, elk, deer, a widow skimmer, a night heron, a stellar jay, a yellow warbler, a red-tailed hawk, a bee, a kestrel, painted turtles, orchids, blue flax, wild geranium, lichen, and even a raindrop do the same, with Winograd capturing them in-the-moment, fleeting and glorious, amplifying the colorful, contoured, eye-delighting reality that simply is everything.
–from “A Way of Seeing”–Rocky Mountain Reader Review
Book Excellence Award Review:
This Visible Speaking by Kathryn Winograd is a moving collection of photopoetry and prose, showcasing the transformative power of art in unlocking our mind and soul.
The book opens with Winograd’s gift of a camera during the Covid lockdown—a seemingly ordinary gesture that unravels into extraordinary revelations. Through her lens, she captures landscapes, animals and objects, with each image reflecting a world that persists in its beauty despite its fractures.
The book’s structure is well thought out and easy to follow—a captivating image is followed by a related quote and journal entry, and then a second image precedes this, with another related passage. The variation of text and images appeal to different parts of the brain, creating a rich tapestry where every thread feels essential.
Winograd’s writing is lyrical, contemplative and thought-provoking. With vivid descriptive imagery, she brings to life each scene and setting with brilliant clarity, making you feel as though you are living and breathing each moment with her. Her photographs, like her prose, are meditative yet electric, inviting the reader to pause, to look, and to listen. Together, they form a symphony of light and shadow, stillness and movement.
In This Visible Speaking, Winograd doesn’t simply mourn what is broken in the world; she illuminates what remains whole, what still speaks. It is a stark reminder of the beauty that persists, waiting to be seen.
– Review by Book Excellence (bookexcellence.com)
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