Artist in the Law
Lynne Sabean
Sabean, a secondcareer attorney working
at Boutin & Altieri in
Londonderry, is busy
with more than photography these days, as she is
one of 14 participants in
the Leadership Academy,
Class of 2015.
Lynne Guimond Sabean, who loves to show and share her photography,
takes a contrarian view of her artistic hobby. She does not see herself as an
artist revealing her vision of the world, instead, she believes that her ap‑
proach is more meditative as she seeks to “take the artist out of the picture.”
The advent of digital technology has democratized photography, putting
great tools in nearly everyone’s reach. Sabean says where an artist can reveal
themselves today is in the choices they make. “Anyone can be a photogra‑
pher if they are brutal about editing their work.”
Images of Eastern State Penitentiary, an abandoned prison that is now a
park and tourist attraction outside of Philadelphia, fascinated her for years
before she finally went there. In one day, she took more than 400 photo‑
graphs, of which she culled less than 50 for display on her website. She also
recently shot photos at the former Benson’s Animal Park in Hudson. The
somberness of these sites of abandonment and decay are not her only choices
for expression (her website also has whimsical photos from a sculpture gal‑
lery and vividly colorful flower close-ups).
See more of her work at: http://sabeanphotos.webs.com.
Fall 2014
New Hampshire Bar Journal
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