Eight years ago, Plymouth resident Joanna Prosser followed her passion into the photography field. Having already attained a degree in art education and studied painting, she launched Joanna Prosser Photography in 2005, and business has been so good she now has a studio in the Northrup King Building in northeast Minneapolis.
The image “Free to Be” was taken last August in the Prossers’ front yard after a thunderstorm. “The lighting was so warm and magical,” Prosser says. “I needed to capture nature’s golden tint on everything as my daughter raided the yard armed with willies to attack the freshly filled puddles. It was a true beauty moment.”
Much of Prosser’s inspiration, she says, comes from wanting to capture the beauty in reality. “I am not a photographer who stages her subjects,” she notes. “I love to honor the sincere moments and document authentic emotions and expressions.”
A favorite spot of mine to take pictures is this cute little grey building across the parking lot from the park on Fernbrook. It is a classic building with the cutest white fence and an unruly garden! I have a favorite series that I shot six years ago of my daughters there.
The Prossers—husband Ryan, and children Elise, 9, Siri, 7, and Baron, 3—have called Plymouth home the past eight years. “We love Plymouth because we get the best of both worlds—one toe in the city and one toe out in the country,” Joanna Prosser says. “It’s the lakes and the bike trails that fill our free days.”
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In Joanna Prosser’s spare—“ha-ha”—time she substitute teaches in the Wayzata School District. “My favorite spot to frequent is the high school—I dream of teaching art there, especially photography,” she says. Check out more of her work at her website.
