Kim Carr Photography: Publications, Books, Magazine Features

DANDELION My House Chicken
Published January 2023

My first FULL FLEDGE book!! A true story for animal lovers of all ages. It is all about my pet chicken Dandelion, her friend Buttercup, and life in and out of the house. Every page features a full color illustration utilizing my photos. Little ones will love the pics and older kids will enjoy the story. It is full of educational tid bits too!

Can you imagine what it would be like to have a pet chicken in your house? What do they like to eat? Are they neat housemates or messy? Are they quiet at night? It is one thing to have a pet cat or dog in the house, but a pet CHICKEN?!

Join me as I take you on grand adventures around the farm with Dandelion and her duckling best friend, Buttercup. This fun and educational journey follows Dandelion and Buttercup from hatchlings to adulthood, shows us what it’s like to live on a farm, and how Dandelion manages to live INSIDE the house with my mom, me, the dogs and cats!

A chicken biography for those who love to read real-life stories!

ONLINE MAGAZINE

Welcome to Flapper Press!
Look for my stories from "Around the Farm" and more in this online magazine featuring original poetry & writing, in-depth interviews, spiritual guidance, art, as well as useful information & inspiring content from writers and artists around the world.
www.flapperpress.com

Books... "Living Well" Anthology

Well I finally did it, I am a published author! This has been a dream for many years, I just never knew how to get started and kept putting obstacles in my way.

Thank you to Cathy and Pam at Davis Creative LLC, I've taken the first step by contributing a chapter to their "Living Well" Anthology, which is a collection of stories from a variety of writers.
My Chapter is...
From the porch to the garden, into the woods

Each story shared by the individual authors in this 2019 "Living Well" anthology carries the message of hope and inspiration. Please join us in celebrating the lives of these women authors and the milestones they share!
Get Motivated • Be Inspired • LIVE WELL!

Learn more about each author and listen to my live interview at...
daviscreative.com/livingwelllaunch/

Living Well can be purchased on my website or in person at many of the art shows I do.

MAGAZINES

Missouri Life Magazine
Featured Article November-December 2019

Delighted to announce that Missouri Life interviewed me earlier this summer for a featured spread in their November/December 2019 magazine. Thank you to Danita Allen Wood for a lovely article about my photography from the beginning to my current photo project which focuses on Heritage Breed farm animals. You can pick up your copy at major book stores or subscribe at www.missourilife.com

Read the full article here missourilife.com/all-creatures-big-and-small/

ACRE USA
March 2019

Delighted to have some of my images used in an article "Small Farm Yields Big Results" about my friends Fred and Serena Stuart of Gerald, MO. The article is in the March 2019 issue of ACRE USA.

The Stuarts are one of the farm families that have welcomed me to their home and farms for my heritage breed photo project.

The ACRE magazines are designed to share proven successful methods of farming, ranching, business and land management. Learn more here www.acresusa.com

To learn more about Fred and Serena and the work they are doing, please visit their website at www.stuartfarm.com

Whispering Prairie Press
Kansas City Voices
http://www.wppress.org/

This image of my great nephew, taken at his second birthday party, August 2016, will be published fall of 2017 and released publicly at a launch party October 28, 2017. I call it, Child of Summer.

Whispering Prairie Press promotes poetry, prose, and visual art by fostering a community of emerging and established writers and artists. Founded in 1994, we publish Kansas City Voices, a magazine that highlights regional talent and welcomes creative work from around the globe.

Mules and More
December 2017

Photo featured inside, "Clela D. Donkey" my Mammoth Jenny. (Black & White)
www.mulesandmore.com/

River Hills Traveler
December 2017

My handmade greeting cards featuring Sophia as a Santa Donk, was featured on the front page of the River Hills Traveler in their, Great gift ideas for that outdoors person, article.

Thank you to fellow photographer/writer, Michelle Turner of MK Designs for selecting my work for this feature.

http://www.riverhillstraveler.com/great-gift-ideas-for-that-special-outdoors-person/

Grit Magazine

Grit Magazine - January/February 2015
Why Ducks? Article by Dave Holderread
2 photos by Kim Carr / Page 70 & 71

Keep A Breeding Pair of Pigs
March/April 2017
Article by Jim Curly
Photo by Kim Carr / Page 48

Grit Magazine - March/April 2015
Prescribed Burning / Article by Oscar H. Will III / Photo by Kim Carr / Page 45

Farrowing On Pasture - January/February 2016 Article by Jodi Cronauer / Photo by Kim Carr / Page 68

Keeping Kids Safe on the Homestead
September/October 2020
Article by Maggie Bullington
Photo by Kim Carr / Page 8

Mules And More

June 2017
http://www.mulesandmore.com/

Cover Photo of Pat and Jane
Hermann, MO
Photo by Kim Carr

BOOKS

Step-by-Step: A Collection of Small Farmers' Success Stories by Innovative Small Farmers' Outreach Program / Lincoln University Cooperative Extension
Photography by Kim Carr

This book is a collection of stories about the small farms and farmers in Missouri that Lincoln University Cooperative Extension's (LUCE) Innovative Small Farmers' Outreach Program (ISFOP) staff worked with during 2011 and 2012.

Inside you will find amazing producers who found purpose and made a sacrifice to nourish the people of their local communities. The stories are written by the ISFOP FOWs who are themselves small farmers, or have a considerable farm background, and live in the communities where they work.

As a hobby farmer myself, I had a great connection to this project. Having the opportunity to travel around Missouri to photograph these incredible farmers gave me a greater appreciation for the life I live. Sometimes you have to step out of your own bubble to see the big picture, the photographing of these farmers for this book allowed me to do just that. It was an honor to meet these fine folks and a project that I greatly enjoyed.

Printed by Rich Printing, Nashville, TN

ISBN: 978-0-615-85920-0

The Whole Goat Handbook - Photography by Kim Carr

Overview: Among both hobby and commercial farmers, goats are today’s hottest trending animals. With The Whole Goat Handbook, author Janet Hurst (photography by Kim Carr) provides a wealth of useful advice and more than 50 recipes and crafting projects that help the reader make the most of their adventure as a goat keeper. From cheeses, meat dishes, and soaps, to knitting, weaving, and felting projects, this completely illustrated guide is an essential resource for anyone considering goat ownership, as well as those who have already embarked on this rewarding path.

Copies are available at the Kunstlerhaus in Hermann, MO and at Greene's Country Store in Lake St. Louis, MO. I also always keep several copies with me at shows.

Art exhibit published as a book by the Columbia Art League
INTERPRETATIONS I - 2013

For Love
by Peg Crawford 2013
Photo by Kim Carr (My original entry)

For love he let her pull the plow in tidy stitches through the soil made soft the day before by men in nameless muscled, diesel-drunk machines.

He followed, weathered hands on weathered
reins, and softly called a canzonet, the plowman’s serenade in dialect impatience rendered vain. He
stumbled, limping, grateful for the pace that matched his own with grace in declaration of the heart that pulled the blade across the field, and up and
down in easy plodding chase.

The earth below, the warming sun above, and him…his voice, for this she pulled the plow again, for love.

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UNTITLED POEM
by Peg Crawford
Photo by Kim Carr (My interpretation)
Model Kay Foley

She stood beneath the maple tree and watched him moving in and out the barn, his breath in hoary gusts that swirled about her breaking limbs like antlers shed, exposing marrow to the cold, and picking clean the bones above her head.

He saw her, waved and stepped inside, the smell of straw and blood escaped. She knew the rake was there, beyond the hook, and tub that caught the steady drips below, that fell like autumn crimson pools on grass. She left the leaves to puddle under snow.

INTERPRETATIONS II - 2014

Her Face in the Moon

Poem by Zak Wardell, 2014
Photo by Kim Carr (My original entry)
Model Angela da Silva

When Harriet’s niece went up for sale, the society of friends conspired. After their cleverly foiled trade, they spirited her away to a safe house by the harbor.

As the lunar season ascended, a steamboat pilot to the west came upon illumination. He spied a somber woman’s face, waxing in ripples of reflected moonlight. Was she a ghost, or perhaps a muse, who inspired in him this story?

A rebellious boy rafted downstream with a runaway slave. He paused, pondered, and weighed, then stole his friend away. Despite the law, risking hell and all.

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UNDIVIDED ATTENTION

by Zak Wardell, 2014
Photo by Kim Carr (My interpretation)

many mornings I saw you gliding on the boards, drawing puzzling chalk figures, arithmetic shapes, and sinuous letters.

through a medium of unsettled dust, innumerable sun rays animated the typography, like a troupe of characters unloosed in the classroom.

(I think I can see it now) an unknown quality of you, and of us, like a quotient that goes without definition, where a playful dance makes space for vagaries and stories.

Interpretations III - 2015

  Malandipity

A teenager’s lament

Poem by Annie Newcomer 2015
Photo by Kim Carr (My original entry)
Model Dakota Carr

I killed myself the other day.
I had to die, though now,
I’m not sure why.
I think it had to do
with pain, the twisted kind
which turns again and again…
As I recall, I ached,
to breathe; I flinched,
when touched.
All I really wanted,
was to make it stop.
I didn’t think
I could make it go away
that day, or any other way.
So here I am, dead,
this much is true,
but wouldn’t you know,
my pain’s still here,
and now,
for all eternity,
with others too.

A Wife Speaks To Her Husband During Visiting Hours
At The County Jail

Poem by Annie Newcomer 2015
Photo by Kim Carr (My interpretation)
Model Dakota Carr

You should be
home
helping me
string slate

and russet gems
into our lives’ fortune.

We could be
on fire
slow dancing
under a new moon.
Instead, I am here
sitting with you.
The only slate:
your grey t-shirt.
The only russet:
your orange prison pants.

Interpretations IV - 2016

Relative Value
Poem by Rebecca Graves, 2016
Photo by Kim Carr (My original entry)

That summer Uncle Joe came to stay, he brought us a rain gauge. How much rain today, this week, this month? We measured every cloud. That summer, Uncle Joe was long, lean and stretched tall. How tall are you? We measured everything that summer. As tall as the sky, he said. We don't believe you and ran to fetch Mom's yardstick. He was wrong, Uncle Joe, only 76 inches and far short of the clouds. All depends upon your point of view, he said. If you get down in the grass, I do reach the sky.

Heavenly Hosts
Poem by Rebecca Graves, 2016
Photo by Kim Carr (My interpretation)

Sweet singing angels, of fire and blood, of sword and wing, Angels who watch over our years and our yards, Angels of Vengeance shooting craps with the Angels of Mercy The Angels of Indifference sit in the diner on the side street, stare at their coffee skinning over growing cold. Angels of the lowest rung following orders, carrying words, messenger bags slung over shoulders, hung between wings. While Rebel Angels sing the sweetest, stoking the flames of unrequited love.

Columbia Art League

Interpretations: A marriage of 40 visual artists and 40 literary artists, each submitting one work of her/his own choice with any theme. Then, an art swap: Each visual artist receives a work from one of the writers; each literary artist receives an artwork. The task for each artist and writer: to create a second work of art or piece of writing, which is his or her interpretation of the other artist’s work. The result: A show of 80 artworks and 80 pieces of writing. The aim of the show: A reminder that we all see the world differently; our interpretations of the world around us are uniquely ours. How will each artist interpret the other artist’s work? How will the viewer interpret the written words and artworks in the show? Inspired by 2011’s captivating Hint Fiction exhibit, Interpretations revisits the nexus of the written and the visual.

Columbia Art League
207 South 9th Street
Columbia, MO 65201
www.columbiaartleague.org