Holding Light In Darkness is a photo essay by photographer Susan Isaacson, contributor to Edge of Humanity Magazine. The project reflects a period during the final months of her father’s life, marked by mornings spent in intimate presence and afternoons along the shores of Lake Michigan. Drawn to water, cloud formations, and shifting light, Isaacson engaged in a steady practice of long exposure photography, sometimes intervening but most often standing as a witness to the horizon and the passage of time. The repetitive and sequential process slowed her pace and heightened her awareness of keeping time amid joy and sorrow.
Susan Isaacson is a photographic artist whose work explores themes of time, memory, and the emotional topography of life transitions. She uses the natural landscape as a way to connect with and express her inner world, grounding personal experience within expansive and contemplative environments.