Catherine Slye

Portraits of people I know while we have a conversation about the memories that we share.  These are some of the images from those conversations. 

Please read my project statement.

New for 2018;  Lunar Landscapes - long exposure, night photography by moonlight. I'm interested in photographing the landscape by moonlight, not the moon itself. 12 full moon outings planned for in and around the Phoenix metro area.

Please read my project statement here.  Contact me if you have questions.

Lunar Landscapes is my featured project in the How I Got the Shot: Women’s Edition. This guide features 30 incredible female photographers and yours truly with a behind-the-scenes look at how I got the shot. Download now for FREE at www.TetherTools.com/Guide

New for 2018, BIKE PHX: Paths, People & Politics

01.13.18 : Phx to Tucson : I followed (in my car) 30 riders from Phoenix to Tucson, 114 miles! We gathered pre-dawn at Bike Saviours in Tempe, AZ and finished at BICAS in Tucson, AZ. 

Honored to be one of the featured photographers in F-Stop Magazine's Portfolio issue, August 2017, featuring my series Night Water.

Thank you F-Stop!

Portfolio + Interview

Some people have noted that the series is redolent of John Atkinson Grimshaw’s paintings of the Thames at night.  Some have characterized his work as gloomy but others feel that capturing the special light at dusk is anything but gloomy because in many ways, it allows us to see more clearly what was there all along.  Paradoxically, it illuminates - while the searing sun rays earlier in the day obscure.

Digital C prints are available for purchase, sized 40" x 34", ready to hang with museum mount backs. Please contact to inquire.

Nightlight is my self-portrait series: 40 photo shoots at 40 sleep-overs in 40 different rooms. I reached out to my immediate community then outward to friends of friends and beyond. I slept in 40 different places and captured well over 1200 images.

My series of images are made upon first waking in the murky blue darkness an hour before dawn, utilizing my phone as the "nightlight". All images are long exposures up to 30 seconds, I shot the entire series with a Sony a7 and Zeiss 18mm Batis lens. 

The resulting self-portrait images contain ghostly double-exposures, transparent shadows, and slept-in beds. I am seen “as-is” - revealing an acceptance of time, place and self. The room is not staged; I am not coiffed nor dressed for the camera. These images are personal, yet the project is public.  This paradox, a yin-yang or introvert/extrovert undercurrent entices me.

I made a 1:12 scale diorama of one of the images. Images of the completed diorama are at the end of this gallery. Behind-the-scenes images of the making of the diorama can be seen here on Flickr. 

I am currently submitting this project to select galleries for showing in 2018/19. Please inquire if you have questions. 

As night descends, the city is bathed in rich, saturated, vibrant color. Blues and purples wash the urban environment, juxtaposing the naturally occurring with the human made. What better time to photograph Phoenix in the Summer, than at night.

A collaborative photographic project. Jared’s images were created with a large-format camera whose design is rooted in the mid-19th century. His series is shot entirely on transparency film with a low rating of ISO 10. Each image required between 8 and 45 minutes of exposure. Catherine’s images are purely digital, blending the immediacy that using digital offers with the ability to photograph manually. Marshall provided the accompanying historical context. All three; Jared, Catherine and Marshall are Arizona transplants who love to call Phoenix their home.

HOT SUMMER NIGHTS debuted at Chartreuse Gallery, 1301 Grand Avenue, Phoenix, September 4 - 30, 2015. Check out the following press:  Chartreuse gallery adds a splash of color to Grand Avenue's expanding arts scene , Downtown Devil. 15 FAVORITE FIRST FRIDAY ART WORKS SEEN IN SEPTEMBER IN DOWNTOWN PHOENIX, New Times. Chartreuse Gallery Opens with ‘Hot Summer Nights’, Downtown Phoenix Journal. 

Digital C Prints 17" x 13", printed on metallic glossy, with lustre laminate coating, mounted on masonite with museum mount backs for secure hanging, ready to hang. Please inquire.

Urban exploration photographs of Phoenix, Arizona, 2016 - 2017.

A continuation of Night Water - v.2 is of 3 of the 9 canals, not seen in v.1

Night Water is my third series exploring Phoenix at night - focused solely on the nine canal systems. Scenes here are from portions of two of the nine.

documenting urban hiking adventures

In January, 2015 I started  “What Food Looks Like”. I set out to photograph food, food access, food insecurity and food deserts in the form of urban community gardens, farmers and farms, neighborhoods, people and organizations here in the Phoenix metro area. 

Within the first four months I had visited 25 places, including; Mesa Urban Garden, The Urban Garden, The Micro Farm Project, Growhouse, Gilbert Farmer’s Market, Recycled City Compost, Arizona Microgreens, The Orchard Community Learning Center, PHX Renews, Garfield Community Garden, Hayden Flour Mills, Hope House Farms, St. Mary’s Foodbank, The Simple Farm, St. Vincent de Paul, Neighborhood Ministries Foodbank. I walked and photographed the eight neighborhoods of Central City South identified in a 2011 study completed by the ASU School of Sustainability in conjunction with the Phoenix Revitalization Corporation’s study on food access.

View What Food Looks Like website.

Selected image included in the JEG Photography Exhibition Feb 15 - Marech 9, 2016, Texas Woman's University. 

Contact me if you would like to discuss my project or you want to use my images for your organization, business or personal use. All images are Copyright 2016, Catherine Slye.

September 2012, I set out to photo-document one dated sidewalk stamp per year of Arizona's centennial, my goal was to capture one per every year from 1912 to 2012.

I walked so many miles, many of them with my dog who you can see in several images, I ultimately photographed over 150 stamps. All of the photographs were in an exhibit and party for New Year's Eve, 2012. 

Published, Arizona Contractor & Community, December 2014

 Editorial, Architecture, Art, Activism 

Available, please inquire.