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Artist // Hobbyist // Photography
- Oct 5, 1988
- United Kingdom
- Deviant for 16 years
- She / Her
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My Bio
I don't have a particular style and my taste in the work of others is nothing but varied - I like what I like! I'm not working within the arts and haven't been all that active since graduating in 2012 but I still dabble and have kept this page as somewhere to post my work. I'll never be a professional, I just like sharing what I do and I appreciate any feedback. I love giving and receiving feedback, positive and negative! I have been somewhat lazy with my own work these past few years but I always have time to appreciate the work of others and help where I can!
Home: Coventry, West Midlands.
Hometown: Birmingham :)
Favourite genre of music: Metal, but like with art my taste is a bit of a mixed bag.
Favourite photographer(s): Mary Ellen Mark, Anna Fox, Clare Strand, Marton Parr, William Eggleston, Mark Billingham, Annie Leibovitz, Susan Derges, Adam Fuss, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Sally Mann, too many to name.
Favourite style of art: Photography, mixed media, digital manipulation.
Operating System: Windows 8 / Adobe Photoshop CS4 / Lightroom 5.6
Favourite 35mm SLR I own: Mamiya MSX500, closely followed by a Carl Zeiss Jenaflex AM-1 and Sigma Mark 1 :)
Favourite lens for above: Carl Zeiss 50mm 1.8
Favourite medium format camera I own: Mamiya 645 1000s - although my Yashica 635 is a close 2nd!
Favourite lens for above: 80mm kit lens, LOVE the prism finder too...
Favourite DSLR I own: Canon EOS 650D - i'd love a 5D Mk III though! full frame! ;)
Favourite lens for above: Canon EF-S 10-22mm
Darkroom enlarger: Meopta Opemus 6 Colour (My home kit, used to use Durst at college and Uni). I process/develop my film at home using a Jobo CPE-2+ rotary processor (my favourite since I first learnt in college!) but I usually hand agitate my B&W these days, gotta love the Paterson kit! I also scan my negatives in when I don't have time to print at home, my scanner is a wonderful Epson V700 flatbed :)
Outside of my creative exploits I am an Optical Consultant at a major high street opticians. I have worked for the company for some 5 years (joining the opticians in 2013 having worked for the pharmacy/beauty side since 2009. I enjoy helping people and learning everything I can of the clinical side, the job has many rewards and I have met some wonderful people. If you ever need your glasses adjusting then let me know!
Home: Coventry, West Midlands.
Hometown: Birmingham :)
Favourite genre of music: Metal, but like with art my taste is a bit of a mixed bag.
Favourite photographer(s): Mary Ellen Mark, Anna Fox, Clare Strand, Marton Parr, William Eggleston, Mark Billingham, Annie Leibovitz, Susan Derges, Adam Fuss, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Sally Mann, too many to name.
Favourite style of art: Photography, mixed media, digital manipulation.
Operating System: Windows 8 / Adobe Photoshop CS4 / Lightroom 5.6
Favourite 35mm SLR I own: Mamiya MSX500, closely followed by a Carl Zeiss Jenaflex AM-1 and Sigma Mark 1 :)
Favourite lens for above: Carl Zeiss 50mm 1.8
Favourite medium format camera I own: Mamiya 645 1000s - although my Yashica 635 is a close 2nd!
Favourite lens for above: 80mm kit lens, LOVE the prism finder too...
Favourite DSLR I own: Canon EOS 650D - i'd love a 5D Mk III though! full frame! ;)
Favourite lens for above: Canon EF-S 10-22mm
Darkroom enlarger: Meopta Opemus 6 Colour (My home kit, used to use Durst at college and Uni). I process/develop my film at home using a Jobo CPE-2+ rotary processor (my favourite since I first learnt in college!) but I usually hand agitate my B&W these days, gotta love the Paterson kit! I also scan my negatives in when I don't have time to print at home, my scanner is a wonderful Epson V700 flatbed :)
Outside of my creative exploits I am an Optical Consultant at a major high street opticians. I have worked for the company for some 5 years (joining the opticians in 2013 having worked for the pharmacy/beauty side since 2009. I enjoy helping people and learning everything I can of the clinical side, the job has many rewards and I have met some wonderful people. If you ever need your glasses adjusting then let me know!
Favourite Visual Artist
Luis Royo, H.R Giger, Antony Gormley, Adam Fuss, Gillian Wearing, Hannah Starkey, Sophie Calle
Favourite Movies
Children of Men, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, From Hell, The Matrix Trilogy, Minority Report, Benny and Joon, Memento...
Favourite TV Shows
Time Team, anything with Sir David Attenborough, Prof Brian Cox, Andrew Marr, Simon Schama, Mary Beard, Tony Robinson etc, Charmed, MasterChef, Game of Thrones...
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
In Flames, Nevermore, Lamb of God, Karnivool, Jeff Loomis, Gojira, Himsa, Meat Loaf, Papa Roach...
Favourite Books
P.J Tracy - Live Bait, Mark Billingham - Sleepyhead, Oliver Sacks - Island of the Colorblind, Dan Brown - Digital Fortress, J.K Rowling - Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban, too many to name!
Favourite Writers
Harlan Coben, Dan Brown, P.J Tracy, George R.R Martin, J.K Rowling, Proust, Freud, Sontag
Favourite Games
The Elder Scrolls series (Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim), Devil May Cry series, Warhammer 40,000 - Dawn of War: Dark Crusade, Dungeon Keeper, Theme Hospital, Command and Conquer games, used to be mad on the Pokemon gameboy games too
Favourite Gaming Platform
PC and Xbox 360
Tools of the Trade
Mamiya MSX500, Canon AV-1, Yashica 635 TLR, Mamiya 645 1000s, Canon 650D
Other Interests
Travel, Art, Philosophy, Archaeology, Mythology, Reading, Cooking, Learning, Languages...
summer :(
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So summer has all but gone away and I am yet to go on holiday (September 4th wooo!) but yeah, I don't start back at Uni until October 5th (my 22nd birthday, how unlucky is that!)so I have been thinking about some ideas for "creative" works before then.
I have been interested in photograms for quite some time and last year I did focus on photograms for a project or two - being heavily influenced by the work of Susan Derges and many others like Man Ray and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy to name a few - but my work concentrated on the objects being used rather than the technique. I was interested in re-using and recycling unused and unwanted objects, items
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catch up
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I promised myself i'd be able to go and see whatever exhibitions I wanted to over the summer, regardless of the company I had to keep or even lacked - alas once again I have failed, and even though i'm only a month into my break from University I do feel as though i've already let myself down.
I really wanted to catch as many local exhibitions as possible, and yet I haven't - and now the artists and photographers have packed up their works and some other people I probably wont get to see have started exhibitiing... I hate how indecisive I can be sometimes, in most things in life I can never make up my mind - honestly. I never get anywhere wi
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Final week of University (1st year!)
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I can't believe this past year has gone by so quickly, I stated university on my 21st birthday last year (October 5th) and I only have a few more days left until I am free for the summer.
These past few weeks have been very difficult for me emotionally and so my work has suffered, I have a feeling that I will not be achieving a great mark for this one but for the duration I have learnt a lot about myself. I usually struggle with talking about anything infront of people, but since I have come to terms to the fact that it isn't gona help me (unless I just want to fail University and be alone all my life) I have started to be more relaxed when
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Thanks muchly for the 
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Hi Dude it's Kate 
I just set up a Deviantart account so i can keep in contact with you here Facebook was doing my head in. Have a fabulous Christmas
I just set up a Deviantart account so i can keep in contact with you here Facebook was doing my head in. Have a fabulous Christmas Hi! I haven't updated this in a while so sorry for the late reply... facebook does my head in too, i'd delete mine if I didn't live so far away from people! hope you had a great xmas and new year, keep up the fab work!
thanks for the fave!
Thanks for watching me!
It's no problem at all 
thanks a lot for the fave