Karen is an experienced photographer; on her travels through life she realised she had a talent for spotting the unusual and that the unusual had a talent for spotting her.
Sports day at junior school was an exciting one because all the girls fancied the sports teacher… I was asked to take the pictures for the school, not because I was a good photographer because I’d never used a camera before, but I was good at art so they must have assumed I was good at photography too. Drawing got me out of trouble with the school bullies… I lost my self in my own world and really enjoyed being there.
I left school with no qualifications and ended up on one of these young peoples training schemes, I was naturally drawn to the arty side of life and so trained as a lithographic printer. I got turned down for Art College because my portfolio wasn’t big enough, it didn’t worry me though, I got a job as an office clerk at a printers. I moved around learning new skills, a trade and I loved it.
Photography found me again when I borrowed a friend’s camera. I broke it by accident and pretended I knew how to fix. He said ‘if you can fix it you can have it’. I ended up buying a camera and enrolled on a photography course.
Taken from her website: http://karenmcbride.com/
I quite like her photography, it is very different and I think she has a very keen eye for finding the unusual in everyday scenes. These are a few of my favourite photographs of hers.
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