Gundega Dege is a 34 year 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 Secondary school she started to learn foreign languages and entered University for 5 years of language training. Meanwhile she continued to draw and write poetry. After her studies, she worked as a translator, and later as a public relations specialist and photojournalist in a local newspaper where she discovered the world of photography. She had been taking pictures during her schooling on a casual basis, but in 2004. she started to photograph seriously and she bought her first digital camera. Her first experience was to take photos of children. She studied photography at home – read books, photo magazines, and learned in workshops. After a while she started to post photos on internet photo web sites – such as www.photo.net , www.photosight.ru, www.deviantart.com.

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