katherine young
fine art photographer
bio
I’m an avid, amateur fine art photographer currently based in London. I’m Polish by birth, South African by naturalisation and have also lived in Singapore and the Channel Islands.
My interest in photography started at an early age and was mainly influenced by my father who recorded countless moments of my childhood using his Russian-made Zenit and together, we spent many hours developing negatives in his darkroom.
I began my own journey with travel photography, aiming to capture the essence of each of the places I visited. Inspired by the contemporary environment of Singapore, I later focused my attention on cityscapes and architecture. More recently, I find myself attracted to nature and seascapes.
My portfolio is diverse and I describe my style as fine art because my photographs are created in accordance with my artistic vision rather than being a true representation of reality. This allows me to produce more personal images and provides me with unlimited freedom of expression.
My real passion is black-and-white photography for its surreal and timeless quality. Without the distraction of colour, the photograph looks cleaner and reveals the very soul of the subject. I use black-and-white photography often paired with long exposure technique to control the mood and capture images that only my imagination can see.
awards
2022 - Moscow International Foto Awards (mifa) - Bronze Award, Architecture, 'The Abyss' and 'Mirage', Bronze Award, Fine Art, 'Elements (Fade to Black)', Honourable Mention, Architecture, 'Immortalite' and 'Sentinel', Honourable Mention, Fine Art, 'Far from the Madding Crowd', Honourable Mention, Nature, 'Arabian Mares of the State Stud' and 'Enchanted Woods'
2022 - Prix de la Photographie, Paris (px3) - Silver Award, Architecture, 'Mirage', Bronze Award, Architecture, 'The Network' and Silver Award, Nature, 'Arabian mares of the State Stud'
2022 - International Photography Awards (ipa) - Honourable Mention, Architecture, 'The Network', Honourable Mention, Nature, 'Primordial'
2022 - Black & White Spider Awards - Third place - Honour of Distinction, Architecture, 'Caged', Honourable Mention, Architecture, 'The Downward Spiral', Nomination, Abstract, 'Elements', Nomination, Architecture, 'Vortex'
2022 - Budapest International Foto Awards (bifa) - Silver Award, Architecture, 'The Network' and 'Mirage', Honourable Mention, Architecture, 'Utopia'
2022 - Chromatic Awards - Honourable Mention, Architecture, 'The Network' and 'Utopia', Honourable Mention, Cityscape, 'Metropolis'
2022 - Tokyo International Foto Awards (tifa) - Gold Award, Architecture, 'The Network', Honourable Mention, Architecture, 'Utopia'
2022 - Annual Photography Awards (apa) - Second Place Winner, Architecture, 'Utopia' and 'The Network', Third Place Winner, Architecture, 'Heart of Darkness'
2022- International Color Awards - Honourable Mention, Architecture, 'Utopia, part II' Nomination, Architecture, 'Evanescence', 'The Network, part I' and 'The Network, part II'
2021 - Prix de la Photographie, Paris (px3) - Gold Award, Architecture, 'Elements III (Fade to black)', Honourable Mention, Architecture, 'Caged' and 'Hubris'
2021 - Moscow International Foto Awards (mifa) - Silver Award, Architecture, 'Equivalents', Honourable Mention, Nature, 'Primordial'
2021 - International Photography Awards (ipa) - Honourable Mention, Architecture, 'Caged', 'Scar Tissue', 'Elements III (Fade to black)', Honourable Mention, Fine Art, 'Saltwater' and Honourable Mention, Nature 'Enchanted Wood'
2021 - EPSON International Pano Awards - Bronze Medal, Built Environment, 'Caged' I and 'Caged' II
2021 - Black & White Spider Awards - Nomination, Architecture, 'Scar Tissue' and 'The Void'
2021 - Budapest International Foto Awards (bifa) - Honourable Mention, Architecture, 'Caged'
2021 - Chromatic Awards - Honourable Mention, Architecture, 'Caged' and 'London Prism'
2021 - Tokyo International Foto Awards (tifa) - Bronze Award, Fine Art, 'Elements III (Fade to Black)', Honourable Mention, Architecture, 'Caged'
2021 - Annual Photography Awards (apa) - Honourable Mention, Architecture, 'Elements', 'Caged' and 'The Downward Spiral'
2021 - International Color Awards - Honourable Mention, Architecture, 'Mirage', Honourable Mention, Nature 'Enchanted Woods'
2020 - Moscow International Foto Awards (mifa) - Gold Award, Architecture, 'Heart of Darkness', Silver Award, Architecture, 'Elements II', Honourable Mention, Architecture, 'Solace', 'The Sail', 'The Nucleus', 'Vertical Living'
2020 - Prix de la Photographie, Paris (px3) - Second Place, Architecture and Gold Award, Architecture, ' Equivalents', Silver Award, Architecture, 'Heart of Darkness', Honourable Mention, Architecture, 'Vertical Living' and 'The Nucleus' and Honourable Mention, Nature, 'Primordial'
2020 - International Photography Awards (ipa) - Honourable Mention, Architecture, 'Consciousness', 'The Nucleus', 'Heart of Darkness', 'The Sail' and Honourable Mention, Fine Art, 'The Alchemy of Light'
2020 - Black & White Spider Awards - Nomination, Architecture, 'Lego Land', Nomination, Wildlife, 'Out of Darkness'
2020 - Xposure International Photography and Film Awards - Certificate of Merit, Architecture, 'Ascension'
2020 - Budapest International Foto Awards (bifa) - Silver Award, Architecture, 'Equivalents'; Bronze Award, Architecture, 'Hubris'; Honourable Mention, Architecture, 'The Nucleus' and 'Heart of Darkness'
2020 - Chromatic Awards - Honourable Mention, Architecture, 'Escalate' and 'Semblance'
2020 - Tokyo International Foto Awards (tifa) - Honourable Mention, Architecture, 'Hubris'
2020 - International Color Awards - Honourable Mention, Architecture, 'Caged', Nomination Architecture, 'London Prism' and 'Plasticity'
2019 - Sony World Photography Awards - Shortlisted, Open Architecture, 'Hubris, part I'
2019 - Moscow International Foto Awards (mifa) - Bronze Award, Architecture, 'Haunted'
2019 - Prix de la Photographie, Paris (px3) - Silver Award, Architecture, 'Interdependence'
2019 - International Photography Awards (ipa) - Architecture Photographer of the Year (First Place, Architecture and First Place Abstract Architecture), 'Elements II'; Honourable Mention, Architecture, 'Vortex', 'Equivalents', 'Interdependence', 'Immortalité' and Honourable Mention, Fine Art, 'Ex Nihilo'
2019 - Black & White Spider Awards - Honourable Mention, Architecture, 'Haunted'; Nomination, Architecture, 'Vortex, part II', Nomination, Wild Life, 'Arabian Beauty'
2019 - Budapest International Foto Awards (bifa) - Gold Award, Architecture, 'The Downward Spiral'; Silver Award, Architecture, 'Elements'; Honourable Mention, Architecture, 'Interdependence' and Honourable Mention, Fine Art, 'Far from the Madding Crowds'
2019 - EPSON International Pano Awards - Bronze Medal, Built Environment, 'Transcendence'
2019 - Chromatic Awards - Third Place, Architecture, 'Vertical Living'; Honourable Mention, Architecture, 'Consciousness' and 'Labyrinth'; Third Place, Cityscapes, 'Mirage'; Honourable Mention, Abstract, 'Imagination'
2019 - Tokyo International Foto Awards (tifa) - Silver Award Architecture, 'Equivalents'; Bronze Award, Architecture, 'Vertical Living' and 'Heart of Darkness'; Honourable Mention, Architecture, 'Consciousness'
2019 - International Color Awards - Honourable Mention, Architecture, 'Escalate', Nomination Architecture, 'Curves', 'Rainbow Candy', 'The Hive', 'The Sail' and 'Vertical Living'
2018 - Fine Art Photography Awards (FAPA) - Third Place, Architecture, 'Elements'; Nomination, Architecture, 'Translucence' and 'Equivalents'
2018 - Moscow International Foto Awards (mifa) - Silver Award, Architecture, 'The Downward Spiral'; Bronze Award, Architecture, 'Elements'; Honourable Mention, Architecture, 'Metropolis'
2018 - Prix de la Photographie, Paris (px3) - Silver Award, Architecture, 'Elements'
2018 - MonoVisions Photography Awards - Honourable Mention, Architecture, 'Elements', 'Illumination', 'Radiance' and 'The Imitation Game'
2018 - International Photography Awards (ipa) - Second Place, Architecture, 'The Downward Spiral'; Third Place, Architecture, 'Haunted'; Honourable Mention, Architecture, 'Elements', 'Vertical Living', 'Mirage' and 'Immortalité'
2018 - EPSON International Pano Awards - Bronze Award, Built Environment, 'Serendipity', 'Illusion' and 'Vertical Living'
2018 - Black & White Spider Awards - Nomination, Architecture, 'Equivalents part I' and 'Ascension'
2018 - Chromatic Awards - First Place, Architecture, 'Hubris'; Honourable Mention, Architecture, 'The Downward Spiral' and 'The Sail'
2018 - Tokyo International Foto Awards (tifa) - First Place, Architecture, 'The Downward Spiral'; Gold Award, Architecture, 'The Downward Spiral'
2018 - International Color Awards - Nomination, Architecture, 'Consciousness' and 'Forms'; Nomination, Abstract 'Imagination, part I'
2017 - Sony World Photography Awards - Commendation, Open Architecture, 'Fluidity'
2017 - International Photography Awards (ipa) - Honourable Mention, Architecture, 'Illumination' and 'The Imitation Game'
2017 - Black & White Spider Awards - Nomination, Architecture 'Solitude' and 'Theatre of Dreams'
2017 - EPSON International Pano Awards - Silver Medal, Built Environment, 'Metropolis'; Bronze Medal, Built Environment, 'Afterlight'
2017 - ND Awards - Honourable Mention, Architecture, 'Sounds of Silence', 'The Pinnacle' and 'The Abyss'
2017 - Monochrome Awards - Honourable Mention, Architecture, 'Ascension', 'Illumination, part I', 'Illumination, part II', 'Oscillation', 'Solace' and 'Theatre of Dreams'
2017 - International Photographer of the Year (IPOTY) - Honourable Mention, Architecture, 'Oscillation', 'Mirage', 'Illumination' and 'Translucence'
2017 - International Color Awards - Honourable Mention, Architecture, 'Seclusion'; Nomination, Architecture, 'Seclusion', 'Fluidity' and 'Le Coeur'
2009 - Expat Living Digital Photo Competition (Singapore) - First Place, Nature
exhibitions
publications
Edge of Humanity Magazine - Series 'Imagination'
LensWork Magazine issue 161 - series 'Elements'
Photo publications - Photography magazines: Camerapixo, Shot! Magazine #40, Black Magazin, Stark Magazine, Black and White Universe, MonoPix (Landscapes and Sunset - Sunrise), ArchiMinimal The Collections - Classic and Indoor, B&W Minimalism Magazine 03, Fine Eye Magazine issue 4 and Fine Eye Magazine issue 6
Color Awards Winners Book - Winners Book 2023 vol 1, Winners Book 2021 vol 1, Winners Book 2020 vol 1, Winners Book 2018 vol 1
Black & White Spider Awards Winners Book - Winners Book 2020 vol 1
Annual Chromatic Awards Photo Book - 2018 and 2019
Tourism publication - TimeOut London
National newspapers - The Guardian and The Telegraph
Nikon 'Star of the Week' Cover
Nikon films - 'I AM NIKON 2016' and 'Nikon 100th Anniversary'
Musee Magazine interview
ArchiMinimal interview
Shut Your Aperture Photographer of the Week article
ND Magazine profile
Camerapixo profile
Personal blog '14 Inspirational photographers' article
Photographize Magazine profile
Dodho Magazine - 'Elements' series
Dodho Magazine - 'The Passage of Time' series
Dodho Magazine - 'London Underground' series
Lens Magazine (November 2018 Black and White issue) - 'Elements' series publication
ipa winners interview
The Art of Building 10 year Collection - The Chartered Institute of Building
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