Photographer Karis Beaumont on learning on the job
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For Jamaican British photographer Karis Beaumont finding photography was accidental, though looking back she feels it was destiny. Though she used to pore over family photo albums as a child, it wasn’t until 2014 that Beaumont began saving up for a camera as she was keen to explore her passion for styling and fashion with her friends. The next year her dad bought her digital camera for her birthday.
“Around that time, I’d found out I had dyslexia in the middle of my first year of studies. The diagnosis gave me clarity on a lot of things, one of them being my photographic memory and thought process,” Beaumont tells CR. “After my trip to Jamaica the following month, I uploaded a few pictures of moments there on my Instagram, which caught the attention of Ibrahim Kamara, co-founder of Guap Magazine.”