About KT Allen
I find these kind of pages really boring, so I will keep it short. I am a 38 year old housewife. I have four interests in life...Family, Warcraft (online gaming), Photography and my four Yorkshire Terrier dogs. I have a few other hobbies and I am skilled in many areas, including webdesign, cooking, gardening, crafts and knitting, but they don't hold as much passion as my main interests.
My journey into photography was a very sad, lonely and dark path. It began when my daughter's (Jazmine) disability became overwhelming difficult. I quit my career as a web developer to care for her through several major operations to reconstruct her hips. We knew it would be years before she could walk again. So I began the photo editing as something to develop my photoshop skills to aid my return to work when she was better.
The operations were not successful and the rehabilitation is on going. Jazmine is learning to manage independently with the help of medication and is pursuing her future at university. It is difficult, but you just get on with life.
What I did not expect was the emotion of the images I began to develop. I had never been a creative person, but I finially found a way to express all the deep-seated sadness, loneliness and displacement in the world.
From starting photography in 2011 and then moving on to the competitions in 2012. I created my first composite image in 2012 after joining Wigan 10 photography club. It is a bit crazy the whole situation of being a no-body and applying to one of the best amateur photography clubs in the world, but that's just me all over. I tend to do crazy things and always think outside of the box. I knew I did not have much to offer Wigan 10 at the time of joining, but I knew I had to much to give in the future.
Influencing Factors
These photos are just some little windows into who I am and what is important to me. Just when you think you might have me figured out you will be scratching your head again. I like my own space, I think I get that from my Granddad, we used to call him the mad professor. He would spend hours and hours in his 'fiddles n knobs' room upstairs. To me as a small child it was like Aladdin's Cave in there. In that room my Granddad would invent all kinds of gadgets and gizmos and I spent many a happy hour creating things or just watching. Granddad also taught me how to use a computer and it was on his Acorn Computer he taught me simple programming. So even though my Granddad was a hard man emotionally, he was probably the greatest influence in my life.