Local Photographer Displays Work at Township Library

Hildi Borkowski has been a photographer for more than 35 years and knows how to capture nature at its purest through the lens of her camera. She is currently sharing her work at the .

“I enjoy how it makes me feel. I enjoy sharing the joy of whatever it is that I’m looking at,” Borkowski said.

She started taking pictures just for fun. It was just a means of documenting good times with friends, Borkowski said.

“I didn’t start out doing flowers and such, just taking a picture of my friend buried in the sand,” she said.

As she began to appreciate photography as artwork, Borkowski saw nature as the perfect scene. She looks to capture nature, flowers and landscapes.

“I look at things and if it strikes my fancy and makes me happy I have a feeling it’ll make someone else happy too,” Borkowski said.

This is why Borkowski, who lives in River Vale, decided to put her work on display at the township library.

“I have such a passion for nature and I just wanted to share my work and get it out there,” she said.

She saw Joyce Levine’s advertisement about her library display in March and asked if she too could put her photographs up for residents to view.

Levine, the library exhibit coordinator, agreed to put Borkowski’s work on display.

“Hildi is a member of  the Pascack Art Association but I really don't know her. I chose her because I think she has a unique approach to photography,” Levine said.

“It’s not my intention to sell them. If it sells, that’s great. If it doesn’t, that’s OK too,” Borkowski said. “If someone goes to look at it and it makes them feel better then I accomplished what I set out to do.”

She is showing multiple natural abstracts in the program room at the library through the end of July.

Borkowski’s photographs have also been on display at the Park Ridge and Emerson public libraries.

Along with belonging to the Pascack Art Association, Borkowski is also a member of the Ringwood Manor Art Association, the National Association of Professional Women, the Photographic Association of America, the Teaneck Camera Club and the Puffin Foundation Camera Club.

The Puffin Camera Club meets weekly. Borkowski said she’s learned different ways of viewing nature through her lessons at these meetings.

“Some people might just see a flower but we don’t. We see designs and color,” she said. “We just see different things in ordinary objects. Let your mind go and you can see an awful lot.”

See Borkowski's photographs at the Washington Township Library, 144 Woodfield Road. The library is open Monday, Tuesday and Thursday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Wednesday and Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.