Chemical connections

If Kelly-Ann Bobb wasn’t so nice it would be easy for me to find her quite annoying. Not only is her photography exceptional, and not only does she have almost as many cameras as I do, but she has managed to achieve both of these feats in just two years. Some of us have taken a lifetime to get to where we find ourselves right now in our photographic careers, while others, like Kelly-Ann, speed along at 100mph and seem to arrive at the same place in a matter of minutes. Kelly-Ann has an incredible drive and masses of energy; as well as, it seems, an insatiable thirst for knowledge and experience. And she doesn’t hang around thinking about it – she actually gets on and does it.

A surgeon from Port of Spain in Trinidad and Tobago, she mixes a hectic medical schedule of consultations and operations with a new-found passion for shooting, developing and printing film in all its forms and formats. I joked that she spends her working life looking at the insides of people, and her leisure time looking at their outsides. She laughed politely. But spending time with the outsides of people while connecting with their insides is the consequence of a turning point in Kelly-Ann’s life, and has helped her find a balance that she says was missing before.

Loss and found

‘Before exploring photography I didn’t have a balance in my life. I was very focused on my profession and ignored many other aspects of my life. Society teaches us to get good grades at school and