"Crofter's Cottage, Isle of Skye, Scotland"

gelatin silver print

signed, titled, dated, numbered on verso

"I consider myself to be a photographer and a printer. I think that’s an important distinction to make. I don’t just take photos; I make photos too. The photographer in me is responsive, impulsive, reacting to subject matter on the spur of the moment, more often than not giving very little thought to anything more than the lines and tone of what’s in front of me; the printer in me is methodical, exacting, always working in a more meditative way. I do, however, think that both the photographer and printer in me are curious, inquisitive and often playful – and neither is afraid to make mistakes."
Kit Young

Look at the prints, they are here to be explored by the observers like a poem. In fact they are poems.
They evoke the mood and the feeling of the places they show. Listen to the prints and they will whisper to you. Scotland expands in front of you. There is the wind and the vast landscape in mystery for you to discover in these beautiful prints. Is it a wave or a mountain? Where does this road lead to? Cup of tea in a house or a wee dram of single malt? Look at the prints and hear again the whispers and sense the smell.
Kit Young is a film photographer who sees the subject in front of his lens and creates his powerful prints in the darkroom. A photograph which might be unimpressive and flat will get its power and meaning in the darkroom through the expert craftsmanship and the creative eye of Kit Young. The subject, which might be a city scene or a landscape or people gets is expression and mood only after the print has been made. This is very much how I like art photography, it is not some light pixels on a, sometimes tiny, screen but it is the object, the print which makes the art and brings the joy to the collector.
(Viktor Orgonyi)