When Niki Collins takes her trips to the great outdoors, she is able to bring something of that serenity back to civilization with her.
By Daine Mead
Macon Telegraph & News, Sun., May 25, 1986
Greece. South Africa. The Bahamas. The wilds of North Georgia. These locations conjure up images of nature and should be considered areas of beauty. As creative impetus for a photographer, they can't be beat.
Luckily for Niki Collins, documentation of the beauty of such areas is more than just a hobby. In some ways, it has become a way of life.
Niki Collins is probably known to readers of this paper because of her columns on the family. As a counselor, Niki deals with people. She enjoys shooting landscape, and Niki feels that she enjoys this area of photography so much because it gives her such a great deal of joy and peace.
In a profession that deals with people, she knows the value of diversions that enable the spectator to lose himself or herself in the artwork. Her office walls are decorated with her very serene scenes of uninhabited areas of the world. One immediately feels a sense of calm and assurance when in Niki's office.
Niki is the kind of person who makes people feel comfortable. Possibly, when she takes her trips to the great outdoors, she is able to bring something of that serenity back to civilization with her. When I arrive at her office for her interview, I realize something that possibly she does not: She is dressed in ocean colors. Her skirt is a pretty, Adriatic blue. Her blouse reminds one of sandy beaches.
She looks as though she would be comfortable anywhere, but especially out of doors.
As she talks about her photographs it is evident that she is very capable of conveying her philosophy about photography. She says, "I was first trained in the fine art idea that black and white photography was all that mattered. But now I love color because I want to bring back more of the atmosphere of the places I go."
She understands the snobbery that sometimes makes color photographs less desirable to the fine art thinkers.
She is aware that she will have an image that is more universally appealing if she photographs her seascapes and landscapes in color.
The main idea for her is centered around capturing the beauty of the land and sea.
Niki has a soft, South African accent when she speaks. She talks of her fine arts education in South Africa and New York City with fond memories.
She graduated from the Germain School of Photography in 1974.
Niki speaks of the work of Edward Weston and Ansel Adams often in her conversations. It is evident that she has done a great deal of thinking about what she wants to do with her art.
Niki will have an exhibit at the Ingleside Gallery during June. She is excited about seeing her work shown and hopes that it can convey some of her ideals about photography.
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