TITLE: Light Stories

I strive to create strong narratives in my work and create images that tell a story. I try to depict unique worlds where the subject's imagination creates a new reality. All of these images were taken in the last two years, either at home, or on travels with my family. As a mother during covid, my children, were often my most available subjects. I have spent the last two years creating opportunities to recreate my own childhood memories and nostalgia for a different time, a different childhood using the present. I selected these images (some digital, some analog) to tell the story of light and how it can be its own subject.

AUTHOR: Kirsten Decker (United Arab Emirates)

Kirsten Decker is an American Artist living in Dubai. She has lived abroad for over twenty years and despite moving many times, Dubai has ended up being home for fifteen years.
Kirsten has a BA in studio art from Wheaton College, MA and Goldsmiths, London. After studying Photography, she participated in several solo exhibitions and juried shows before joining the Peace Corps as an art teacher, and then becoming a high school art teacher in Chicago. She works as an artist in Dubai.