Tracy Amner Biography   1980 was the year that Tracy Amner’s love affair with photography began. At the tender age of eight she recalls having an ‘activity week’ at her primary school where students were asked to choose a subject they would like to take part in.   It must come as no surprise that Tracy chose photography. She created her very own pinhole camera, taking it into the schoolyard and making an exposure, which she later developed in the darkroom. Tracy doesn’t quite remember from this early experience how successful it was but what she does remember is the fascination that it sparked in her for the whole photographic process; a fascination that stayed with her, in one form or another, through her teens to her adulthood. While Tracy worked in industries unrelated to photography, she was not able to commit as much time as she would have liked to the art she loves. This all changed with the digital revolution, which showed her the depths to which she could take her photography and which fully awoke Tracy’s fascination for her art. Tracy has recently been awarded the City & Guilds Photography Level 2 Progression Award with 3 Distinctions. The course allowed her to get back to the roots of photography and as you’d expect, she loved every aspect of the course. While Tracy continues to develop herself as an artist, she remains looking from the outside in, surveying and interacting with the various photographic formats:  black & white, fine art printing, landscapes, macro and even portraiture.   In much of Tracy’s work you will find abstractness filled with lots of texture and colour. If you were to ask her to name her influences she probably wouldn’t have an answer because there are so many photographers that she admires, from Lewis Hein to modern day artists such as Mario Testino. In 1980 the experiment began, the result of that experiment is always evolving but for now, the result is: Tracy Amner’s love affair with photography is far from over.