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"I first studied photography in high school in the UK, learning how to create a surrealist specialty - the photogram or rayograph and more conventionally to shoot in black and white, to process films in the complete dark and print under a red light. Before I made the switch to digital, my mantra was "film is your cheapest commodity". I then studied digital photography and art direction at the New England School of Art and Design in Boston and at RISD in Providence, Rhode Island. A couple of years later, in Paris, I joined a class entitled Documentary Photography in an attempt to get some people into my work. This exhibition, "The Other Side of Paris", had its seed sown in those classes. My latest mantra is "keep your eyes open" and this principle guides my new work, I look for irony, beauty and the unexpected in everyday lives."

About Kate McLean

Kate McLean is a photographer and graphic designer now living in Manchester in the North of England after several years living abroad. Kate has exhibited in the USA (Boston – New England School of Art and Design Gallery Space, 2003, 2004), France (Paris – WICE ArtSpace, May 2007 and rue Jules Chaplain, July 2008 and in the European City of Culture (Domino Gallery, May 2008). Her photographs have appeared in a variety of print publications and corporate spaces in the USA and France.

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