Photography came as a hidden gift to Celine Lecompte. She had been given a basic camera for her 10th birthday and she enjoyed taking random pictures, mainly pointing and shooting at objects, places or people. It was a few years later that a Polaroid camera found its way into her hand but it was quickly set aside for the cost of the cartridges, proving too expensive for a teenager’s lack of funds.

Her paternal grandfather thought it might be a good idea to invest in a meatier device that he entrusted Celine on her last year of teenagehood. She still has the camera to this day, it being the last gift her now deceased grandfather had given her. Celine eventually moved to digital photography as a treat after a difficult turn in employment and has found herself being asked to attend music gigs and rehearsals for bands, building them a portfolio and her own at the same time. In the same period she started taking her beloved cats as models, which proved quite a challenge but also a very rewarding experience. “I love capturing movement, personalities. There is so much in a person or an animal, whether the person is known or the animal is domesticated, or not. It is a very different feeling to taking pictures of, say, the sky although there is incredible soul in the disposition of colours and moving shapes, or landscapes. For me photography is a personal business, most of the time I will find even just the one detail that will make the photograph interesting to the eye, but I do have my off days too. Also I don’t think there are bad subjects, there are only uninspired photographers.”

She is very passionate about her art and her goal is to achieve the ultimate emotion in every shot she takes. And to always learn at least one new thing a day.