The Photographer: Trish Gaunt

Trish’s education in photography began at an early age, with a traditional SLR camera, but she moved into digital photography in 2002 when given a beautiful new digital camera.

Her love of photography was given to her by her father, who was continually snapping away, for enjoyment and for his job – a surveyor and estate agent. After a few years of her borrowing his camera, he bought her a camera of her own, and spent many hours teaching, helping and advising her.

He sent her on a photography course when she was thirteen years old, and from then her mind was set. She blames it on the chemicals she was using in the dark room. That, or the fact that her teacher left her alone in the dark room, and she ended up creating her own brand of art by exposing photo paper through her hands, bottles, glasses, and any other random object she could find there.

At first, Trish made a career in marketing and management, and utilised her photography skills within those positions, but now she predominantly works as a freelance photographer for a variety of publications and websites, as well as working on a variety of personal projects as inspiration takes her.

The Photographer's Work

Currently, Trish is working on a sister site for Trish Gaunt Photography, alongside her more usual projects. Those include working with some local businesses and tourist sites who are utilising her photography in the publication of their sites, and working with a number of stock photography websites. She is also finalising plans for a safari trip in December 2007.

Her photography has appeared in e-Zines and magazines, has been used by fantasy artists as reference photos for their backdrops and regularly received coveted “Top 10” placements for her photography from the "ArtWanted" community. She has also had the good fortune to work on occasion as a freelance for a variety of independent websites promoting British heritage and tourism.

TrishGaunt.com will act as a portfolio for her portrait photography. Her intention was that 2007 would be a year dominated by flowers, but her plans deviated slightly :)


Trish will be starting 2008 with a bang - on safari in Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda, and the year will only get busier from there. When she gets back, increasing her portfolio of portraits will be a big part of her year. As will the florals she loves. Contemporary florals have long been of interest to Trish, and after dallying with them occasionally over the past couple of years, she has plans to put together a series of florals that will be released as art prints possibly exhibited at local venues later in the year. The future will see Trish implementing a stock library within this site.

Besides providing photographs for magazines, websites, books, etc, through stock sites & independently, Trish is currently producing a range of prints and greeting cards and is looking to produce a range of postcards. Enquiries may be made here.


As ever, this is only the beginning :)