Kira Lehane, born in Norfolk, has graduated The University of Brighton with a First Class Honours in BA Photography.

Lehane uses both digital and film technologies as a way of documenting the world as she sees it. Covid-19 lockdown really forced Lehane to step out of comfort zone and in doing so she created a body of work comprised of self-portraits that explored identity, this stemmed Lehane’s love for portraiture and capturing emotions through the lens. 

Lehane takes great pleasure in lifestyle photography, helping others to capture memories and sentimental keepsakes with her photography. Making the clients comfortable is her main priority, making sure the photoshoots are fun and easy is super important and tends to lead her work down a documentary style of lifestyle photography rather than stiff posed images.

Her personal work consists of documentary style portraits of people she meets in the streets, she finds getting to know these people and speaking to them whilst taking photographs is really rewarding, despite being nerve wracking at times, and she gains a lot of trust from the people she is working with by having these conversations. This also helps Lehane to address certain social issues within some of her works where appropriate.

FEATURES:

University of Brighton Graduate Showcase -https://exhibitions.brighton.ac.uk/students/kira-lehane/

Source Magazine - https://www.source.ie/graduate/2023/univbrigba/univbrigba_index.php

Spectrum Instagram Takeover

EXHIBITIONS:

2019 ‘and i’m not happy about this’ St Margaret’s Church, Norwich

2020 ‘Unmasked’ Online

2022 ‘Indagation’ Edward Street, University of Brighton

2023 ‘One Stop Copy Shop’ Edward Street, University of Brighton

2023 ‘Boundless - BA Photography Graduate Show’ Edward Street, University of Brighton

2023 ‘Paper Threads - Free Range London’ Number 7 Dray Walk, London