Y. Hope Osborn
Little Rock, Arkansas
Expressing imagination and reality that captivates, inspires, and/or informs while enriching lives
Message
Y. Hope Osborn is an author, photographer, digital artist, and editor residing in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. Her publications include ecological experiences that educate and entertain and personal traumas that encourage survivors and expose victimization. She uses her environment and built photography and text from you and her to weave art in how she/we think, feel, believe, connect, and care.
Hope is additionally published as author and artist with The Sun, Woods Reader, Barely South Review, Plants and Poetry Journal, Whitefish Review, University of Arkansas at Little Rock Writers’ Network, Awakenings, The Sunlight Press, and online Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Her works are exhibited and awarded, including Monovisions Awards, Neutral Density, Julia Margaret Cameron Photography Award, International Photography Awards, Architecture Masterprize, and See|Me, internationally, online, and off in Portland, Oregon; New York City; Santa Paula, California, Arkansas—USA and Barcelona, Spain. She won the Not Real Art Artist Award and $10,000 Mid-America Arts Alliance Catalyze grants.
Hope believes being a great author and artist is to be entrusted to express reality and imagination that captivates, inspires, or informs while enriching lives.
Statement
I am an author, photographer, and researcher and the documentary art I am drawn toward is more than a label on the wall, photo essays that hold the text to the photo, or research articles that include but do not refer to photos.
My art is fact, photo, history, and reflection.
The art is in my photographs and our words complimenting and enriching one another. Our heritage are our stories, feelings, and perhaps emojis.
My vision though is ultimately history and my story under my photo and your reflections around. I've begun with three quotes you may find at Timing. The story grows. The art is alive.
Perhaps your bit of history or personal reflection will find its way to my works.
It''s coming . . .