Cheryl RankinVan Stockum
Photography is my love language.
Cheryl Van Stockum lived, learned, and raised her sons in Louisville. Moving to Shelbyville in 2007, she quickly became immersed in the community she calls her new hometown. Sometimes a nurse, often an actress and writer, always a photographer, Cheryl seizes every opportunity to be traveler and gardener. She loves wandering small towns, meandering the back roads, hiking forgotten trails, and hearing, seeing, telling stories with her camera and pen. She's blissfully grateful for all who call her Mom, wife, daughter, sister, aunt, friend, and Grandma Cheryl.
Cheryl Van Stockum is a regular contributor to Shelby County Life Magazine. Her photos hang on the walls of the Shelbyville Conference Center, the Masonic Homes of Kentucky, Shelby County Court House, Shelbyville City Hall, Shelby County Community Theatre, as well several private home and businesses. Her images can also be viewed numerous websites of local businesses and organizations, and of course on her signature line of prints, note cards, and calendars. She is available to photograph family and individual portraits, Personal Branding, events, as well as custom photos for business stock and industry.
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“Growing up in the 50s and 60s, I was drawn deep into National Geographic and Life magazines; fascinated by the pictures and narratives swirling around images in The Louisville Times, encyclopedias, family albums, and travel brochures.
With the first shutter click of our family’s (large and sorta awkward) camera, I snapped shots of my dad hoeing beans in the garden, my cocker spaniel nursing her puppies under the boxelder tree, and the marigolds along our front walk. Upon picking up the prints from the drug store, I covered the dining room table with the black and white scalloped edge squares. Tho some of the images were ill cropped or poorly exposed, the stories began to emerged. The camera (and I) had captured a story in a moment, a moment never to be replayed. Forever frozen and remembered by way of a photograph.
What began as a fascination with pictures, developed into full on love affair with the art of photography, culminating in the creation of Cheryl Van Stockum Photography in 2012. Many years and dozens cameras later, still, I’m the most Me behind my camera.”