Rosemary creates her life around bringing her dreams to reality and believes, “Anything is possible if you set your mind to it.”
About Rosemary
Rosemary Kimble is a self-taught photographer and lifelong indie artist whose work is guided by intuition, stillness, and a deep reverence for the unseen. Shaped by decades of independent practice, collaboration, and community engagement, her work arises from listening—to place, to spirit, and to the subtle wisdom woven through everyday life.
Her work has been published in Harpur Palate and The Word’s Faire, received a Special Merit Award for Photography and Digital Art from TimeSpace Magazine, and includes an artist residency with the Kolaj Institute in New Orleans. Panoramic photography has become her primary practice, offering expansive, immersive perspectives that invite presence, multiplicity, and contemplation beyond the limits of the conventional frame.
Rosemary’s relationship with photography began while volunteering with wildlife abroad, where long moments of stillness and communion with the natural world awakened an intuitive, spiritually rooted way of seeing. Before turning her focus fully toward photography, Rosemary worked as an award-winning professional costume and body artist and served as a producer and director of numerous community-based and international performance art and variety shows. These formative experiences continue to echo through her images, informing their symbolic language, sense of ritual, and performative depth.
Early in her career, Rosemary worked as a found-object collage artist, an approach that led her to create Recycle for the Arts, a nonprofit reuse center dedicated to diverting materials from the waste stream and placing them into the hands of teachers and artists. She currently tends a small, ongoing project called The Feather Drop, which collects cruelty-free, naturally molted feathers for reuse in costumes and art. Elements of reuse, costume, and body art remain present in her work, as found materials and embodied adornments become subtle agents of surrealism, and spiritual symbolism within the frame.
Rooted in panoramic photography, her work offers expansive, immersive perspectives that blur the boundary between reality and imagination. Rosemary’s devotion to panoramic photography was sparked by her mentor, the late Panorama Ray -creator of the Movin’ Stills technique, who—through a mystical twist of fate—made her his final subject. She carries this moment as a quiet blessing and feels a deep spiritual kinship with his legacy. She reimagines his process for a modern era, creating ghostlike images formed as subjects move in harmony with the camera’s motion.
In panoramic street scenes, architecture, and landscapes, the perspective offers layered viewpoints that fascinate the artist, evoking moments where space and time appear subtly distorted. Through this wide, breathing format, her work gently blurs the boundary between reality and imagination, revealing the quiet magic that lives within the ordinary and the wild alike.
A spiritual seeker and intuitive by nature, Rosemary uses her sensitivity as a compass rather than a destination. Her images are offerings—soft portals into spaces where the veil feels thin and the sacred reveals itself. Through her lens, she invites viewers to step inside the frame and encounter the subtle magic woven through the natural and everyday world.
Rosemary's Projects
Her current interests and past projects – including creating and collaborating on events in honor of Panorama Ray, (the creator of the panoramic "Movin' Stills" technique), Body Artist and owner of Talent Agency, Enrapturing Entertainment and Director of the Body Art Cabaret (an internationally renowned cabaret show) – have drawn interest from people around the world.
