“Caribbean Moon”
“Alaska Moon”
ARTIST BIO | Joris Soeding’s most recent collections of poetry are After Highland Park (Origami Poems Project, 2021) and Forty (Rinky Dink Press, 2019). Soeding’s photos have appeared in publications such as Apocalypse, Sand Canyon Review, and South Loop Review. He is a 2021 and 2022 Pushcart Prize nominee and fifth/sixth grade Social Studies teacher in Chicago, where he resides with his wife, son, daughter, and cats.
ARTIST STATEMENT | One of the many wonderful elements of photography is the happenstance. “Alaska Moon” and “Caribbean Moon” were unplanned and occurred at sea, nearly four years apart. I happened to peer through the window late at night on both occasions and had the good fortune of being on a favorable side of the cruise ship. My late college professor and poet, Maureen Seaton, once stated that the moon is the object that surfaces the most in western poetry. The same can be said of my camera roll. These images depict the quieter moments of very memorable days with my family while sharing my lifelong admiration for the moon.
