I have a great interest in the spaces and places we inhabit on physical, psychological and emotional levels. It is this fascination with the decisions we make in constructing the space around us that has informed much of my current practice, from the placement of an object on a mantle piece in a home to the organisation of a shop window display.
The series ‘Home’ forms an exploration of the home as a site of experience, looking at absence and memory within the domestic environment. These are images of interiors taken in homes experiencing a period of transition. The owners have moved on leaving behind traces of their lives. The images act as a record of human activity, they are evidence of human inhabitation, signs that we exist. I am very interested in the past and how a photograph can operate as memento mori, the images from the ‘Stranger Than Fiction’ project aim to explore this notion, whilst also adopting similar themes to the ‘Home’ series by looking the way we design our surrounding environments. After time a place will build up a history of it’s own, and the ‘Stranger’ series aims to evoke some of that. They are an exploration into our surroundings and the choices people make when creating their environments. They also represent the people missing from the images, although not visible their presence is felt and we are able to imagine who might have created each scene.
None of the images have been staged they have all existed at some point in time. They were initially a search for authenticity within the landscape, the personal marks we make on our surroundings. Yet each image has become it’s own story, a kind of suspended narrative where reality has created it’s own fiction.
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Kate Peters was born in Coventry, England in 1980. I studied Photography at Falmouth College of Arts, Cornwall from 1999 to 2002. After completing my degree I moved to London where for the past four years I have assisted photographer Nadav Kander, whilst working on my own projects and commissions.
I will be leaving the Studio in April 2008 to pursue my own photographic career. I won the Creative Futures Award in 2005 and the Magenta Foundation Flash Forward Award in 2007.
My work has been included in group shows in galleries across the UK and abroad, notably New Visual Language Vol.1, HPGRP Gallery New York in November 2007 and the Darmstadter Tage der Fotografie Festival in Darmstadt, Germany in April 2007
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