Overheard conversations, uninformed observations.

Have you ever said something, and then really thought about what you said… taken the words away from the sentence and separated them, understanding them in their most basic form? Realising that what you said isn’t really what you said at all?

Have you ever looked at an image, thought that you fully understood its meaning, its content, its people, its colours, shapes and form… and then found out you were wrong… really very wrong? Then you forgot the meaning you had created, even though it was real because you had believed in it?

These images are about the seen and the heard. Re-contextualised and reformed, pieced together to create a different story, one that you can question, bring into place the moralistic qualities of society, or the lack of them, apply the fear enforced upon you by the media, relate to yourself or another, or just observe without prejudice if you really can. Everything is a gift… gratefully received or desperately unwanted.

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Karen Harvey BA (Hons) ABIPP is a professional photographer working in fashion, arts and education. She graduated in 2002 from Berkshire School of Art with First Class Honours in Photography and Digital Imaging, and was awarded Associateship of the British Institute of Professional Photography. Her photography and writing have been published in both national and international magazines, and she has exhibited throughout the UK in venues such as Candid Gallery, Islington London, Margaret Harvey Gallery St Albans, Stanley House Recording Studios, London, Collins Gallery, Glasgow and Deluxe Gallery, Hoxton Square London.

In 2004 Karen Gained a Merit Award from the British Institute of Professional Photography for the photographs produced for Fashion Junkie. Karen’s set of images entitled ‘Victims’ was nominated for the prestigious 2004 Citigroup prize and short listed for the International Open Image Award 2003.

Karen has also lectured on photography in colleges across the UK from Edinburgh to Salisbury and is now working on Total Image Nation an online resource which supports and promotes new photographers. To find out more, contact
info@karen-harvey.co.uk.