Everyday miracles

Ever since she was a child, photographer Kos Evans has created images that show the extraordinary dimensions lying beneath ordinary objects and occurrences. With the camera her grandmother gave her, during family holidays she didn’t photograph people or beaches, but silhouetted sewage pipes, strange perspectives, shapes and textures. She has always been fascinated by the possibility of showing the interesting aspects of plain, common things.

Even today, her work is about sharing – and perhaps enabling – a poetic gaze on reality: “Take the boat restoration process: everyone has seen one. I have shot many, the latest being , a 1938 bermudan yawl designed by Olin J Stephens. Every time, the challenge is to find an