1.Introduce yourself - when did you start photography, who are you apart from a dA member?
I don't actually remember 'starting' it as such. From my early teens I used to just love taking photos, on an old 110 camera. Then my parents got me a Kodak Disc camera so then I thought I was the bees-knees, only problem was that you couldn't get reprints from the negs..I always loved imagery, films, music and most of all art. I was a pencil artist, still am if I put my mind to it. My first boyfriend studied photography so I began being consumed by it and at the same time I got my first job, age 18, working in traditional darkrooms...now I'm empassioned by it, live it, love it and dream of it. I've got one month until my next exhibition, at which point I finish my BA(Hons) Degree in Photography. I have a good commercial/corporate portfolio and my diversity with portraiture is proving well for my business. Onward and upward I hope..

2.Why is it that you present your images in square format as opposed to landscape/portrait perspective?
I'll try to keep this answer short..I could talk about this all day! One of my first heroes of photography is Corbijn. I spent years disecting his art and fell in love with the way that he secured his subject within a square. Over the years this rubbed off onto me, unconsciously I think. My job as darkroom printer gave me the joy of printing square negs and reproducing square slides for clients. i feel that it's a special skill to produce the right composition. 35mm is too long for me, there feels too much space, depending on the genre you shoot obviously. 6x7 is awkward, but lovely quality. 5x4/10x8 is the ultimate for me for quality, technique and artistry. But 6x6 just fits. It has a certain 'je ne sais quoi'. It's tight where it needs to be yet can be so spacious, and compositionally it is natural for me.

3.Do you own a medium format camera? Which one, if the case... if no, when and how do you decide on square (before/after shot, with the subject...)?
I do, I have a few..and I want more!!
I have my beloved Hasselblad 501CM with three backs, all film. I have an Ilford Craftsman, Holga with 120 mask, Rolleicord vb and a Zero Image pinhole. I'd love a digi back for my Blad for commercial use..and I love the fact that you have to still 'wind it on' even though there's no 'film' in it..
If I shoot with my 35mm I always know in advance to which format I'm going to use the images, so I crop in my mind before taking the shots because the subject is correctly placed within the feel of the shot, I rarely crop afterwards.

4.Do you view yourself as a square freak? How do you think *SixbySix is helping square loving photographers?
A square freak..hmm, possibly but then again it depends on my commission or whether it's personal work. I mostly use my Blad for personal work so in that case YES I am a square freak.
SixbySix is a great source of inspiration for square lovers. There are many established square-shooters to mooch over and there are ultra-creative young artists, straight shooters, they're all there gaining pieces of inspiration from each other. As artists we never stop learning and being influenced and inspired. Clubs like SixbySix make that task easier for us!

5.Do you photograph a mirror or a window? what are you attempting to show in your photography?
That's a fairly deep question..
Sometimes I photograph a window, sometimes a mirror.. I think the most important thing for me is to have a little piece of me within every image that I make. This is why I don't absolutely follow the lead where commercial portraits are concerned, I like to inject a bit of my style in there too so that I feel that it's a reflection of my ability and it's my creation, rather than trying to make it look like something that someone else made.
I always strive to show depth..not in the sense that it takes the viewer forever to work out what my images mean, but my work needs to have soul and meaning so that it means something to me. It has to be something that I'm proud of otherwise it goes in the bin. I'm hard on myself, I push myself to emotional levels to create the right atmospheres and portrayals. My work never had depth until I studied photography at degree level..the passion was always there but now I 'feel' it when I shoot. It's a good thing.

6.Your inspiring square works/artists on dA?
Ohh I'm nervous already that I'll forget to include somebody here..I look at so much work here on DA, other sites, books, film..that it's tricky to remember the source..ok I'll try my best..enjoy..

natural photography and from the heart
works so well in a square
uses square to the maximum
his work speaks
his portraits make me shiver
speechless
squares that make me stare at them for ages
pure beauty all wrapped up inside a square
no words necessary

There's too many artists that I admire..

Thanks for listening