Welcome to Phillip Periman’s website for the IC Gallery photography and Facing West Press, as well as blogs, essays, and poetry.

A long tan table with a blue top, set against a rustic wall with a window. There are several potted plants: four on the table, three on the ground. There is a planter full of flowers on the outer windowsill; visible inside the room is another potted plant, a blue glass bowl, a pumpkin, and a hanging crystal chandelier. Small patches of grass or perhaps clover doth the rough ground. A bright green hose is attached to the wall on the left. The roots of a climbing vine have grown behind and above it. The reflection in the window shows more rustic walls, one with a shelf holding a watering can and a row of pots, as well as the tops of trees, a painted wooden gate, and the silhouette of the photographer holding a handheld camera to his eye.

“summers at the lake we sat and watched
the birds dip over the water and waited”
—“At the Lake” by Phillip Periman