Details

First Name

Kit
Last Name

Martin
Username

kitmartin
Website

http://www.kitmartinphoto.co.uk
Region

Fife
Disciplines

Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, Sound
Themes

Abstract, Botanical, Environment, Site-specific, Portraits

Statement

Statement

A photographer who enjoys the physical tangibility of analogue and cameraless photography. She also works with digital, sometimes now with a microscope since completing an MFA in Art, Science and Visual Thinking. Kit tries to capture the overlapping contingencies of time and place through photography. This might result in prints being made at the seashore, through the action of the tide on light sensitive paper. She works too with printmaking, moving image and sound. The natural world is her constant inspiration and she celebrates the tiny things often overlooked but vital to the functioning of our world. Kit teaches cyanotype, argyrotype and pinhole photography, in collaboration with Museums, Festivals and Arts Centres including Dundee Contemporary Arts Print Studio.

 

Biography

Biography

Studied Biological Imaging, Medical Illustration (photography) and Environmental Management and worked in both medical and police photography before moving into environmental work with NatureScot, Zero Waste Scotland and others.  Since starting her freelance artistic practice, Kit’s work has been shown in Museums and Galleries around Scotland. She has twice been an invited artist with CONTACT Photo Festival in Toronto and for Analogue Dreams in Aberdeen. As a member of Shutterhub Kit has exhibited at OPEN Photomonth (London & Amsterdam), Festival Pil’ours, Retina Festival, Worthing and Cambridge. In 2022 Kit won First Prize in the Scottish Portrait Awards Exhibition 2022, Richard Coward SPA in Photography with her analogue photograph Mhairi. In 2023 she completed an MFA Art, Science & Visual Thinking in Dundee and now enjoys collaboration with scientists as part of her practice. In 2024 she was a Resident and tutor at the Experimental Photography Festival in Barcelona.

As a volunteer Kit photographed people with strong links to woodlands in Scotland for Reforesting Scotland’s book Woodlanders; New Life in Britain’s Forests. She regularly runs cyanotype, argyrotype and pinhole workshops with adults and young artists and facilitates community based photography projects with various charities.