Christa Holka is a queer portrait and performance photographer who has been photographing her communities both intimate and extended for over 20 years. Christa is interested in documenting the everyday lives of people who wouldn’t ordinarily be documented thereby facilitating an experience of feeling seen through a photographic process. Holka’s practice’s main motivation is to promote, elevate and showcase the communities, organisations, events, art, artists, writers and academics she photographs.
Christa has been working in the UK’s publicly funded culture sector establishing a strong network of personal and professional community ties within London, the UK and internationally. Christa’s work engages with and supports artists and organisations with portraiture and through portraiture, photographic documentation of performance, cultural heritage and arts activity by and for local communities, in galleries, museums, universities, schools and public venues in London and across the UK.
Select clients include: ArtAngel, Arts Admin, Barbican Learning, Gasworks, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Heritage Lottery Fund, ICA London, Museum of London, Rose Bruford College, Tate Modern, Whitechapel Gallery, The Showroom, The Yard Theatre.
Email:
christaholka@gmail.com