“It’s the color I search for. It leads me,” says photographer Katie Baum—and that pursuit is vividly felt in “Frozen” and the story behind it. On a hot, sticky morning in Sayulita, Baum wandered the quiet streets, drawn instinctively to vibrant hues: a pile of dirt against a turquoise wall, a bright purple blanket draped across a concrete bed. She found her subject here–glistening, handmade popsicles stacked in elegant rows, frozen and radiant, waiting to be devoured–and froze them in time. Originally from New York City and raised in Baltimore, Baum studied art and photography at Guilford College. She began her career shooting the back roads of North Carolina in black and white, but quickly shifted focus, captivated by color’s power to shape and transform an image. Her work, exhibited nationally, is conceptual at its core—a balance of observation and invention, grounded in real moments and made radiant through her own vivid lens.