Katya Houtheusen
About
Katya Houtheusen is a photographic artist based between London and Brighton. A graduate of BA photography at the London College of Communication. Her practice interplays narrative and documentary approaches, drifting between observation and fiction as a means of understanding her subject. More recently, her work has started exploring themes closer to her home, re-examining her relationship to the everyday.
Working Title: Over the Downs
Over the Downs traverses the landscape I have grown up around, from horseback. All shot on a 35mm point-and-shoot camera, I return to the same two routes week after week.
Witnessing the subtle seasonal shifts, this work explores the idea of journeying through the familiar, inviting the viewer to slow down and embrace a patient reflection on place, memory, and the passing of time.
Working Title: Residuals
Residuals is a project that explores what happens to spaces once they become unlived in. Developed during a period of transition in my father’s life, as he prepares to sell his home and move to another country, the project asks whether an inhabited space can continue to hold memory after it has been vacated. Do we ever truly leave a mark?
