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Katrien De Blauwer calls herself a "photographer without a camera" as her main focus is on collaging where she recycles magazine and newspaper photos. Katrien leans towards using fractions of body parts that as a result creates anonymous and intimate imagery. The idea of using only certain elements of the body makes her work feel unrecognisable but also very relatable and the use of old pages for collaging pushes the theme of memory to the forefront.

I really like the whole intention behind Katrien De Blauwer's work, it feels very thought out and raises a lot of connotations around several themes. Collaging is one of my favourite techniques and seeing Katrien De Blauwer's work excites me to see how much significance can be added onto the process of collaging. In this photo in particular, I like how it feels like there's a story to the work, why are two photos of body parts glued onto an envelope, where is this going, what was the emotion behind it? In my opinion, her work links to the theme of white space as it is so open-ended, she allows the audience the space to create possibilities when reflecting on her work, just like how she created all these possibilities from recycled images.

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