Allison Kendall

I am preoccupied with ideas and experiences that I find difficult to otherwise articulate. Photography allows me to record and communicate these feelings. My art practice helps me navigate a reality that often feels precarious and fraught with existential questions. Creating a photograph brings me into dialogue with these ideas. Sometimes the results are clear and concrete, sometimes they are abstract and ephemeral.

I approach my work as an act of discovery. On the rare occasion that I have a finished image in mind, I am excited by the prospect that the process may lead me in unexpected directions. I prefer to work with less; natural light whenever possible, limited lens choices, making the most of what the moment provides. Working within deliberately chosen constraints forces me to push my creative limits, which I find can yield much more satisfying results.

For still life and studio work in general I use a very simple off-camera lighting setup, often mixed with available natural light. My most recent studio work incorporates the use of deliberate distortion, photographing through textural materials and layering reflections to emphasize a sense of the surreal.

Working with abstracted subjects, I watch for ways in which form, co...

Manitoba Master Gardener Certification - University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon 2025-2026

Graphic Communications - RRC Polytech, Winnipeg 2023-2024

B.A. in Cinematic Arts & Technology - California State University, Monterey Bay 2003-2007

Dark Mountain: Issue 26 Dark Ocean - Published Autumn 2024

Personal retrospective, exhibited at The Carmel Foundation - Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, August 2015

Automotive Art Slam, participant in group show - Santa Clarita, California, July 2013