Katherine Keates
A photographer for a few years, Katherine’s love of images has led her to discover many avenues throughout the artwork and craft of images each at house and overseas. She has explored, photographed, and written about locations she has traveled worldwide.
Katherine strives to current her distinctive imaginative and prescient and apply a creative method to her photographic work. She actively seeks the magic within the mundane and loves to inform a narrative along with her photos.
Her photos have received awards within the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Yr competitions, Epson Worldwide Pano Awards, Px3 (Paris), Feminine Eye Movie Competition, Journey Photographer of the Yr, RMG Uncovered, Chasing the Gentle and extra.
When exploring the city panorama, one can generally encounter a treasure trove of potentialities. It was a cheerful accident when the condominium I rented for a short keep in London with one other photographer good friend simply occurred to be a stone’s throw from the well-known Highgate Cemetery.
Notable for its illustrious ‘inhabitants’, this sprawling however crowded cemetery was as soon as thought of London’s creepiest cemetery. Nevertheless, it is usually a lush and considerably untamed nature reserve. Crawling with vines and brambles, the traditional tombs, expressive statuary, and tilting lichen coated headstones appear to succeed in by nature’s tangled internet searching for the sunshine of day. It merely begged exploration.
Electing to provide myself a really particular project earlier than I left house, I bravely dedicated to taking one digital camera on this journey to London, and one fastened 25mm lens (equal to 50mm full body] leaving all different tools in Toronto. Moreover, I selected the strict standards of setting my digital camera to sq. format and monochrome and never altering it. Little did I understand how profoundly vital this self-assignment would turn into.
Pressured to {photograph} with strict, self-imposed limitations, I used to be nudged into discovering views I by no means would have thought of. As I slowed myself down, I let my curiosity management my creativity. It grew to become much more bodily to maneuver across the vegetation and statuary searching for a composition and to place myself precisely the place I wanted to be. It took time and grounded thought to fastidiously compose, take up the weird atmosphere, decipher the faint and weathered epitaphs, and really feel the temper of the second. With this new method, I unexpectedly related fairly intimately with my topics and developed a deep, surprisingly highly effective relationship with them. I nonetheless replicate again on the gathering of photos from this venture as denoting a crucial turning level for me in ‘seeing’.
I’m a staunch believer in initiatives. This specific one took my photographic experiences to new private heights and depths, which carried itself all through all the journey. First, I used to be capable of journey abroad with a easy and single stick with it bag which allowed me to calm down emotionally and bodily into the journey. However extra vital, by not packing a couple of lens and one physique plus committing to a monochrome setting from the very begin, I honed my apply all the way down to the naked necessities and efficiently crossed the hurdle of needing each piece of apparatus in my bag. I used to be completely free of decision-making stress and the burden of cumbersome tools. This allowed me to work my craft with what I had, bodily and metaphorically, with no regrets.
I do not at all times {photograph} this manner however the precious classes it taught me can’t be realized in any workshop or seminar. I problem everybody who’s hopelessly hooked on their gear, to easily ‘let it go’. And, in the event you take the problem, I might love to listen to about it.
