Chrissie Westgate FRPS
I have been interested in photography as a medium for many years. A photographic image can expose so many emotions and almost always transcends nations.
Images are a capable and powerful way of exposing situations of conflict and misery throughout the world and afford a compelling means of bringing about change.
However it is only in the last few years I have enjoyed the privilege of immersing myself in this art form that affords me my personal opportunity for self -expression. I find it difficult to describe that ‘great inside thing’ I get from creating an image that reflects how I felt at the decisive moment I chose to capture. However, if I had to find words for me ‘Harmony’ and ‘Delight’ would spring to mind. Harmony, for at that moment of pressing the shutter I am completely and utterly captivated and absorbed in my subject, whatever form that might have taken. Delight! So many things delight me but encapsulating a precious moment in time in a tangible way remains in my un-technological mind such an astonishing thing to be able to do. I hope those feelings remain with me always.
Images are a capable and powerful way of exposing situations of conflict and misery throughout the world and afford a compelling means of bringing about change.
However it is only in the last few years I have enjoyed the privilege of immersing myself in this art form that affords me my personal opportunity for self -expression. I find it difficult to describe that ‘great inside thing’ I get from creating an image that reflects how I felt at the decisive moment I chose to capture. However, if I had to find words for me ‘Harmony’ and ‘Delight’ would spring to mind. Harmony, for at that moment of pressing the shutter I am completely and utterly captivated and absorbed in my subject, whatever form that might have taken. Delight! So many things delight me but encapsulating a precious moment in time in a tangible way remains in my un-technological mind such an astonishing thing to be able to do. I hope those feelings remain with me always.