About

I am Katrina Evans, an Ma Graduate from Aberystwyth University studied Fine Art and Art history where I concentrated on the medium of Photography.

I experimented with my photography and developed it as an art form. I allowed myself to try many techniques and processes of photography, from pinhole to polaroid to digital. By doing so I developed a better understanding of photography, of taking a picture and the importance of light, space, form and distance. These different techniques taught me how to respect each process and how to enjoy and immerse myself in it.

Experimenting with these different medias and exposures has allowed me to use photography as an escapism, getting lost in the world around me, finding the beauty and detail in the rugged terrain, in the dark woods and valleys. I often feel as though I am alone in my own piece of tranquility with no one around for miles.

Allowing me to create beautiful, ghostly, eerie images of worlds unseen before. By doing double exposures it allows me to create something new and unique as no two will be the same. And by using film I am able to keep an old tradition going, a skill which is slowly being lost with the introduction of digital photography. I love the connection I get from my work; the process of looking, seeing, touching and also the developing, being in the darkroom and immersing myself in the darkness and seeing the images appear in front of me. Developing by hand also allows for new experimenting with dodging and burning in, the timings and contrast and it all will change how my final image will appear.

I am also experimenting with Polaroid. I love the quirkiness of the Polaroid and how obscure each image is that comes out. No two are alike; the images often come out with slight imperfections, washed out, or grainy, or marks appear on them. This is partly why I love them; they have this effect that although being modern, new film, they often resemble the very early photographs like those of Anne Brigman or Arthur .F. Kales in the early 1900s.

My work has a romantic, surreal, eerie quality. The love of nature and ideality springs to mind but also a certain sadness and darkness to contrast and a quality of death and loneliness.