Whispering Reeds (2014), digital photography, giclée print, Omega Rag, 841 x 560mm Whispering Reeds (2025), moving image, including archival footage, 11mins 25 secs
94.5 x 63.5 x 3.4cm cm
2025
Tegen is a documentary photographer and filmmaker based in the Black Country. Since graduating from the University of South Wales in 2018, her practice has focused on exploring manmade environments and the people and objects that inhabit them. She creates narratives around the everyday and the overlooked. Through careful composition, she aims to create dialogue about contemporary environmental and social issues while also building a strong sense of atmosphere and place. Her work is deeply rooted in observation. She is interested in how people shape their surroundings and how those surroundings, in turn, shape them. A personal thread often runs through her projects, yet she leaves room for viewers to reflect on their own relationships with space, memory and change. She is particularly drawn to locations with layered histories, places undergoing transition, or sites that hold personal or collective memory.
Whispering Reeds (2014), digital photography, giclée print, Omega Rag, 841 x 560mm Whispering Reeds (2025), moving image, including archival footage, 11mins 25 secs
94.5 x 63.5 x 3.4cm cm
2025
Tegen is a documentary photographer and filmmaker based in the Black Country. Since graduating from the University of South Wales in 2018, her practice has focused on exploring manmade environments and the people and objects that inhabit them. She creates narratives around the everyday and the overlooked. Through careful composition, she aims to create dialogue about contemporary environmental and social issues while also building a strong sense of atmosphere and place. Her work is deeply rooted in observation. She is interested in how people shape their surroundings and how those surroundings, in turn, shape them. A personal thread often runs through her projects, yet she leaves room for viewers to reflect on their own relationships with space, memory and change. She is particularly drawn to locations with layered histories, places undergoing transition, or sites that hold personal or collective memory.
