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Kirsty Mackay studied photography in Glasgow before working as a photographic assistant in New York and then London. She has assisted some of the top fashion and advertising photographers in the UK and abroad including Herb Ritts, Albert Watson, Nick Knight and Anton Corbijn.
In 2005, she completed an MA in documentary photography at the University of Wales, Newport.Now based in Bristol, Kirsty Mackay works by making portraits of the passerby on the street. She is concerned with the subtle and everyday personal accessories and nuances used by people that so precisely reflect our society and identify our times.
Kirsty Mackay has been commissioned by The Independent On Sunday, The Sunday Express, M magazine, Arnolfini, and the Watershed.
Kirsty Mackay received the Hunters Armley photographic prize in 1989 and The Association of Photographer’s Best Still Life Portfolio in 1998. Kirsty Mackay was also a finalist in the Fujifilm Velvia Bursary prize in 1999. She has had 3 solo shows including iCapture in 2004 at the Deluxe galley, London.
Kirsty Mackay contacted Vodafone at the end of 2002, when the very first mobile phone cameras were coming onto the market in the UK. She wanted to adopt mobile phone camera technology to document her life and the world around her by taking a photograph every day of 2003. The finished work was iCapture - 365 images taken on the digital camera of a mobile phone.
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