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This is certainly one of 32 pictures taken by Kinsman native Rebecca Nieminen that was chosen for show at University Hospital as a part of Ohio’s 88 Counties Photography Project. The hospital bought this one and two others to maintain after the present ends.

KINSMAN — An area photographer’s work has been chosen to adorn the partitions of a Columbus hospital, which is scheduled to open in a couple of month.

Rebecca Nieminen, proprietor of Storyteller Photography: Images by Rebecca, focuses on portraiture and positive artwork panorama and nature images, which she mentioned has been a pastime since she was a youngster.

She didn’t pursue it professionally till 2013, after a divorce left her a single father or mother.

“I wanted to earn money doing something creative and be self-employed with a flexible schedule so I could be there for my two young children,” she mentioned.

Nieminen mentioned 32 of her pictures have been chosen for “Ohio’s 88 Counties Photography Project.”

The pictures will embellish the inpatient corridors of the 24-story, 820-bed University Hospital, which can substitute a couple of buildings and connect with the prevailing James Cancer Hospital at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.

Most of the pictures have been taken in Trumbull, Mahoning, Ashtabula and Geauga counties, she mentioned.

Marti Leitch, media relations director for the Wexner Medical Center’s Communications and Marketing, mentioned the hospital, scheduled to open Feb. 22 for affected person care, mentioned the hospital’s environmental branding workforce related with photographers throughout Ohio.

“We reached out to about 200 photographers throughout the five-month process of selecting the almost 600 images we have curated,” Leitch mentioned in an e mail.

Leitch mentioned not less than 90% of the photographers chosen have an Ohio connection, whether or not they actively stay right here, used to stay right here or have visited.

The purpose, she mentioned, was to gather six to seven pictures per county, and pictures are of topics together with farms, fields, bicentennial barns, lined bridges, waterfalls, lakes, rivers and downtowns.

“We even incorporated Ohio baby animals on our maternity care floors,” Leitch mentioned.

The assortment of pictures is supposed to rejoice The Ohio State University’s land grant historical past and the middle’s imaginative and prescient to be a premiere well being system in Ohio, Leitch mentioned.

A plaque will accompany every {photograph} with the message “The Ohio State University was founded as a Land-Grant University — a program established by President Abraham Lincoln amidst the throes of the Civil War … In recognition of our patients and their families, this hospital’s patient corridors exhibit photographs of natural wonders, historic landmarks and cultural artifacts from Ohio’s 88 counties.”

Nieminen can also be working with a couple of large field shops which have expressed curiosity in presumably licensing a few of her pictures on the market within the U.S. and Canada, however she mentioned a deal has not but been finalized.

Much of her work is centered on rural life, documenting the numerous weathered barns, nation church buildings and lighthouses she comes throughout in her travels.

She additionally does senior photos and headshots.

Over the previous decade, her work has been featured in a number of Ohio artwork galleries, and in 2024, {a photograph} she calls “Solar Eclipse Angel” went viral, with individuals from throughout the nation inserting orders for prints.

She was additionally named certainly one of Lake Erie’s greatest photographers in 2023 by “Lake Erie Living” journal.

One of her pictures was picked as a canopy picture for the Geauga County Tourism Bureau’s 2026 customer’s information.

She acquired a bachelor’s diploma in skilled writing and enhancing from Youngstown State University in 1998, and a grasp’s diploma in English in 2010.

She has additionally labored for The Vindicator as a reporter and photographer and taught introductory composition at YSU.

While writing was her past love, Nieminen mentioned she had been “dabbling in visual arts since childhood.”

She has self-published two images books, “Searching for Ascension” and “For the Love of Old Barns.” Nieminen additionally authored the historic novel, set in 1820s Ohio, “The Dance of the White Deer.”

She mentioned the ebook relies on true occasions and was chosen in 2013 as a finalist for The Eludia Award, provided by Hidden River Publishing to girls writers over the age of 40.

“From the time I could hold a crayon, I was drawing or painting pictures,” she mentioned, explaining it has all the time introduced her a way of peace and pleasure to create.

“I have not given up my writing goals and would like to publish more books, but for now, photography pays the bills,” she mentioned.