Kottie Gaydos was born and raised in Michigan. She moved to Baltimore, Maryland and attended the Maryland Institute College of Art where she received her Bachelors of Fine Arts in Photography and Creative Writing. Since 2010 she has been photographing the Khampa Tibetan Nomads in China’s Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.
Time and again her work comes back to the body and the senses. Capturing how people interact and are affected by their environment and surrounding landscape. She looks for quiet moments within people, the spaces they inhabit, and in the objects that they surround themselves with. Gaydos’ photographs are an honest endeavor at honoring and depicting those experiences.
In her travels the photographs that she takes are a continuation of that exploration and are a contemplation on the sensual ways in which people inhabit their spaces, traditions, and cultures.
Image courtesy of Dallas Baird
