People say that when you begin taking photographs that suddenly you look at the world differently. Seeing from behind a lens shows you all the colors, textures, and patterns in the world around you.

Suddenly you notice the contrast of flowers in front of a corrugated metal building… You see the patterns of café chairs outside a bakery… The intersecting lines of a building, street, and fence…

In photography the everyday and mundane become Art.

Ciara Totton, began taking photography classes last year at Spokane Art School. She has been taking photographs ever since. Classically trained at the Oaks Christian Academy, Ciara moves between color and black/white photography.

Ciara has shown her work at The Gallery of Thum (http://galleryofthum.com/default.aspx) and was invited to display at the Inland Northwest Women’s Business Center (http://www.inwbc.org/).

She will be selling her work at various art fairs around the Inland Northwest this summer. Ciara plans to continue her Art training through various classes and camps.
 

She is thirteen years old.