Photofusion Member | Viveca Koh

I am a self-taught Fine Art photographer, with a special fascination for small details, for lost, abandoned, poignant and generally broken objects, and also for darkness contrasting with light, both in a physical and emotional sense.

Many of my illustrative images simply evolve as I am working on them – I start off with a quite straightforward idea of what I want to achieve but am always willing to venture wherever the photograph wants me to go, as I overlay multiple images together or add textures, scanned documents as new layers, and subtle shading. Two photographs may blend together in a way that I could not have previously imagined, and this is one of the things that I find so exciting and all-consuming when I work, to produce a final image that perhaps a little bit different, that invokes emotion in the viewer and makes them question their sense of the world as they know it.

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In 2010 I was awarded a Licentiateship Distinction by the Royal Photographic Society for ten photographs based on birth to death in a mental asylum, and in June 2011 I submitted a panel of fifteen photographs for an Associateship Distinction the Society, and was successful in attaining this distinction following a unanimous vote from the judges. I am planning to work towards Fellowship with the Society in the near future.

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