Stantonbury Gallery presents a solo exhibition by Nicky Kenny, beginning on Monday (September 14).
The Wolverton resident temporarily put down the camera, just long enough to explain her love of photography...
'I remember as a child looking through old family albums, pictures of what may have been insignificant moments that had been locked in time, into tiny faded images, seeming now more significant in their stillness.
'In my twenties I was given an old Nikon camera from my father which I loved, but it wasn't until my late thirties that I began to take my photography more seriously, because it became a compulsion. Something that I not only wanted to do, but had to do.
'I photograph, perhaps, to document the every day.
'Life is so fast it seems and looking at photographs gives me a time to reflect and make sense of what has gone before.
'I want to steal the insignificant moments of the day to day and make them seem more than they are. I often go back repeatedly to favourite places and photograph the same image again and again.
'I have also noticed that I tend to photograph the back of people, rarely their faces, as if they themselves are looking at the photograph too. My photography is a personal journey for myself, like a painter needs to paint, I need to take pictures.
'My daughters often feature in my photography as they are the most important part of my life that I want to document and look back at.'
The show is free to view and runs to October 4.
