Photography : Margaux Kent – TheBlackSpotBooks

Margaux Kent is a free soul, open to many things : journeys by boat, adventures in foreign lands, investigating the abandoned buildings of others, and the sea. It seems she travels through life with one eye roving the past for lost treasures, the other seeking out what fresh beauty and strangeness the world has to offer.

 

 

Margaux loves the sea. Once in an old Danish pirate ship, she travelled to the Galapagos Islands. Another time she traversed the inner coast of Greece and Turkey in a small boat of 12 people. She has also spent time travelling through Israel and Jordan, riding horseback in Petra with her son who was not even a year old at the time.

 

 

Margaux’s images are wild and free, yet somehow detached and contained; they have a sense of the dangerous and the disturbing, yet they are quite beautiful. Her preference for subdued colour, underpinned by the grainy texture of the paper they are printed on contributes to their ethereal, dreamlike sense of elsewhereness.

When she was asked in her Etsy Featured Seller interview, “What first made you want to become an artist?” she replied “It was never a consideration. I just started to make things early in my life and have never stopped… I used to wake up before the sun did and knock on my brother’s door, “Do you want to make stuff?” I’d ask.”

 

 

 

Now she lives in Philadelphia with her husband and two sons, in an old 1800s home that used to belong to a bootlegger, and makes frequent trips to the seashore.

 

 

You can find more of Margaux’s photography in her Etsy shop, TheBlackSpotBooks. She is also currently running a Kickstarter campaign for a new book of photographs, which you can check out here.