Love and Light

Vancouver, Autumn 2011 © Marissa Roth

I arrived in Vancouver on the first day of autumn. My good friend and I went to Nitobe Memorial Garden at the University of British Columbia and sat for a long time under this maple tree, catching the luminous afternoon light.

Looking West

Vancouver, Autumn 2011 © Marissa Roth

An insatiable sense of wonder, I think that's what makes life worth living. However, as Michael Pollan said in The Botany of Desire, "Memory is the enemy of wonder, which abides nowhere else but in the present."

In spite of all the sunsets that I've photographed all around the world, over many years, I was still bowled over by the beauty and mystery of witnessing this one while visiting a friend in Vancouver recently.

Photokunst

Monk in the Sunlight, Sakya Monastery, May 2007 © Marissa Roth

Big news from Marissa Roth Photography!

"I am very pleased to announce that Photokunst, a small fine art photography agency that specializes in photo sales, licensing and exhibitions for galleries and museums, will be debuting my collection with my recently completed Tibet project, "Infinite Light: A Photographic Meditation on Tibet." I am delighted to work with Barbara Cox, the founder of Photokunst, who shares my vision for teaching tolerance by promoting photographic work that illuminates documentary and ethnographic imagery."