About
Christina became interested in photography when she was living in Somerset, in her teens. She later moved to London and worked as assistant to a leading advertising photographer, and as a freelance photographer in events and editorial photography.
Her photographic style took a turn while at the University of Brighton, under the tutorship of Iain Roy; where she discovered her passion for water and became interested in the spiritual in photography. Water Study was her major project in the final year of her BA in Editorial Photography. She strictly avoided people pictures, until visiting Sub-Saharan Africa, where she found people coming back into her photographs.
She spent five years in Spain, where she worked on The Arms Factory, Toledo, Spain Collection and The Spirit of Toledo. The private collection The Arms Factory, was bought by the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, on the historic site of the old factory, in Toledo, Spain. In London again later, her projects included the Roehampton House collection and Tidelines. She has exhibited in both the UK and Spain.
Christina now splits her year spending just three months in London, and living in Senegal, West Africa. In 2009 she founded the community development charity Abene Karantaa, and is working hand-in-hand with the local team on projects that give a hand up, rather than a hand out.
Through the process of photography she deepens her relationship with the natural world. In her work she strives to go beyond the visible to what is felt and not seen.
She worked with an analogue 6 x 4.5 cm medium format Bronica camera, and now uses a digital Nikon D300 camera.
'It is in the penumbra between the clear visibility of things and their total extinction in darkness, when the concreteness of appearances becomes merged in half-realised, half-baffled vision, that spirit seems to disengage itself from matter and to envelope it with a mystery of soul-suggestion.'
Charles Caffin