Gundega Dege

Gundega Dege, 34 years old photo artist from Latvia. Her first steps in art were made during her childhood and school time when she attended drawing school and took part in several drawing competitions and exhibitions. After studies in the Secondary school she started to learn foreign languages and entered the University where for 5 years was studding foreign languages, meanwhile she was continuing to do drawings and write poetry. After her studies, she started to work as the translator, later as the public relations specialist and photojournalist in local newspaper. So she discovered the world of photography. Of course she was taking pictures during school time, but it was just casual. In 2004. she started to do it seriously when she bought her firs digital photo camera. Her first experience was to take photos of children.