Kajsa Wingerup

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Kajsa Wingerup is a Swedish-American visual artist with a speciality in portrait photography. During her Photography B/A in Edinburgh, her long-term documentary and fine art projects explored themes of identity, strength, and vulnerability, focusing primarily on small niche communities with diverse subjects and exploring the layers that make up their personalities.

Her time at Fish Factory was spent collaborating with a few of the other artists to create portrait work inspired by the environment and the collaborating artists’ creative expression.

In addition, she explored self-portraiture and made connections with local fishermen to document a piece of their lives working in the East Fjords. Her work seeks to go beyond mere visual representation; she aims to bring out the depth and complexity of each individual, telling their story through subtle nuances in expression, body language, and light.