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Biography

Jan Fyfe was born in London and currently lives and works in Manchester where she completed her BA(Hons) Degree in Documentary and Fine Art Photography following a Foundation Degree in Contemporary Photographic Practice.  In 2007 she was shortlisted for the Epson Art Photo Award in Dusseldorf and has exhibited at Cube, Manchester in 2008 and 2009.
 
Her interests lie primarily with landscape photography but her current work is based on memory, traces, time and place where she has taken the idea of palimpsest and used it to discuss arrangements of space and their unfolding in time.  Other work has discussed land use and abuse with out-of-town retail developments and the unnoticed spaces of unused or derelict sites.  She endeavours to take photographs that are aesthetically pleasing but have an underlying message.