Photography has long been the salve for Shira Gold’s restless mind. It is medium through which she distills, reflects and reframes the world through a contemplative lens. Gold’s expansive bodies of work are sensitive visual narratives born out of personal experience yet resonate with broader universal themes of impermanence, identity, grief and growth. Shira’s art practice is distinguishable by a quiet rigor. She uses the natural world as symbolism. Metaphor surfaces through composite, composition and negative space. Minimalism and stillness are hallmarks of her work. These choices are more than aesthetic, they are conceptual strategies that invite the viewer into a quiet space to focus on intention and slow seeing. “Through my work I engage with the discomforts and change in life.” “I am invested in holding space through my work for those uneasy and often blurred edges where sensitivity and strength meet…. Where there is beauty in the joy, the pain and in transformation.” Her photographs have garnered international recognition through awards such as the Fine Art Photo Awards, LensCulture Art Photography Awards, and the International Photo Awards. Her work has been published in The Guardian, The Times, The British Journal of Photography / 1854, Dodho, PhotoEd Magazine, and others. She has exhibited in public and private spaces across North America, as well as in Spain, Greece, and France. Shira lives and works on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations, in Vancouver, Canada.