For the culmination of our exploration of abstracts this season, we celebrate with this month’s competition on abstracts. By now, many SSCC members are old hands with this topic. We’ve created abstracts for our group exhibit, and many of us have been juried in – again – to Joe Miller’s annual abstracts exhibit.

Finding a judge for this topic was a bit tricky. We wanted someone with a special interest in abstracts but someone with a new perspective to which we haven’t been exposed before. Emily Reid Campbell is just that person.

Also known as “dcemmy,” Emily is an abstract, architectural, conceptual, and experimental landscape photographer and web designer. She’s a member of InstantDC, ExposedDC staff, AMPt, and several other photography, web design, and digital media organizations. Her work has been featured in local galleries and exhibits, as well as on many national and international photography websites.

For Emily, the primary focus is on architecture, in both “standard building” and abstract forms, and though she enjoys branching out into other photography styles and genres, this is her true passion. She is fascinated by lines, patterns, and angles – and she loves finding new ways to use these to create unique art forms and alternative perspectives.

Emily lives in Washington, DC with her husband James and son Thomas. She and her husband are co-owners of Bright Zebra Media, a web design firm catering to a diverse array of small business clients.

To see some striking examples of Emily’s work, visit her web site: www.dcemmy.com.