Kirstin Prisk; A written evaluation

Kirstin Prisk; A written evaluation

Kirstin Prisk has established himself as one of the most respected and highly rated photographers in and around the southwest and Cornwall, with his original and contemporary approach to wedding and commercial photography.

In 1975 Kirstin was born in Cambourne, Cornwall. Cornwall is very well known for its surf and wave culture, this led to kirstin spending the ages 14 to 26 surfing with not much care for anything else, including school. He left school at the age of 16 with no academic achievements and wanted to focus all his attention to surfing. During this time he was fortunate to have the support from surf giant Quicksilver which enabled him to travel the world and follow his passion of surfing. At the age of 26 he realised that he was growing up and had nothing to fall back on. Around this time camera phones were released and were all the range, this fascinated him to the point that he became very passionate about image making.

This passion for image making led him to enrol on a course at Truro College, Cornwall. He studied HND Photography and digital imaging and then followed this course onto the University of Plymouth to complete his honours degree achieving 2:1. For Kirstin’s final major project he created an online magazine ‘600 mm’. The concept behind the magazine was to create a career-launching platform in which to show his wide range of skill sets. The magazine caught the attention of media critics and received over 100,000 individual visitors and eventually receiving an award. Along side the magazine Kirstin spent six months planning and writing a dissertation on modern and contemporary wedding photography that really reflects in his work today. If you ever browse through Kirstins work you really get a sense of originality with his fast, loose and documentarian style approach. This ability enables him to stay on top of this very competitive market and produce very aesthetically pleasing images. However his work isn’t always based around weddings, with an ever-growing client list with big names such as Nike and Rip Curl he seems to be able to adapt and produce high-end commercial images.

His Dominant, original and forever growing progression in his work is why Kirstin is thriving and a head of his game in this small market of photography in Cornwall. His enthusiasm and passion for his chosen medium should be an inspiration to any young, up and coming photographer not just in Cornwall but anywhere around the world.