Seeking the World’s Soul

Kira on a shoot in Antalya, Turkey

I really hate writ­ing “about me” things. Artist state­ments usu­ally come off as pompous fluff with with a big side-dish of pseudo-intel­lec­tual wank, and to top it off they tend to be dull.

So that out of the way, I’m 32, a semi-pro pho­tog­ra­pher, trav­eler,  and teacher of Eng­lish — as of 2009-10 in a pri­vate girls school in Sam­sun, Turkey.  I do travel stock, fine art pho­tog­ra­phy, and occa­sional wed­dings; prints and rights man­aged stock are avail­able via Pho­to­shel­ter inte­gra­tion with this site.

Much of my more arts-oriented work has themes of myth and his­tory. I’m a pagan, majored in ancient Mediter­ranean his­tory, and have a deep love of folk­lore and sacred sites. Also, of movies and movie posters — prob­a­bly the biggest influ­ence on my work with models.

Any­way, that’s me. I play with the cod­ing side of my web­site some­what more often than I actu­ally post, which has resulted in me try­ing about a dozen dif­fer­ent gallery solu­tions since start­ing the site in 2005. I’m try­ing to get all the images onto Pho­to­shel­ter now but work­ing full time at a Turk­ish high school doesn’t leave me tons of time. If you like a pic­ture that you can’t click on and get a price, email me at kira@kirahagen.com (kira null@null kira­ha­gen NULL.com) .