Marsha Williamson Mohr

“My rural photography is unique and defines me. It has taken years and years to develop that perfect composition of a rural scene. The fence, the lane, the farmstead perfectly balanced.”

Marsha Williamson Mohr

CityWest Lafayette
CountyTippecanoe
Photography
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INDIANA ARTISAN STORES
carmel store | french lick store

Asked what inspires her, Marsha Williamson Mohr quickly says, “Too much.” To hear her tell it, she can’t go anywhere or look at anything without picturing a photograph in her mind.

“Interestingly enough, this started as a hobby,” says the Tippecanoe artisan, who worked as a professional photographer for nearly 30 years. “Then it became a challenge to market my work in magazines and books. Now I aspire to still be successful, but to collect a mass volume of as many various images as possible.”

As an 11-year-old, Marsha says she had an “unusual fixation and knowledge of the great west and our national parks.” A young 4-H member, she served as her family’s navigator for a month-long trip out west.

“After 8,000 miles, seeing and photographing many national parks with my little Kodak Brownie camera in black and white, I had the perfect subject material for my 4-H photography project,” she says. “I won a blue ribbon.”

She began a serious pursuit as a professional photographer in 1987, and focused her talents on capturing the outdoors and natural surroundings.

“As I started submitting work to publishers of high-end national publications, I had the market on something different, something that other photographers weren’t shooting, and I did not have competition — Barns,” she says. “Barns with flower gardens, or rural scenes that screamed ‘country!’

“Sure, I can photograph a waterfall or mountain and would have an occasional image published, but barns gave me my foot-in-the-door, so to speak.”

While barns opened the door to her decades-long career, Marsha’s body of work is much broader.

“My rural photography is unique and defines me,” she says. “It has taken years and years to develop that perfect composition of a rural scene. The fence, the lane, the farmstead perfectly balanced.”

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