Photography News | Issue 66 | photographynews.co.uk
Obituary 24
Agnès Proudhon-Smith 1968-2019 Remembering...
Agnès lost her life while pursuing her passion for photography in the Western Isles of Scotland. In this special feature, PN pays tribute to her and her work
In a tragic accident on 20 March, Agnès Proudhon-Smith drowned at Nisabost Beach on the Isle of Harris. She was attending a photographic workshop and the group had gone onto the rocks to photograph the crashing surf, when a freakwave hit the group and Agnès was swept into the sea. A search was carried out, and Agnès’s body was found on the shoreline and flown to Western Isles Hospital by a coastguard helicopter, but she was later pronounced dead. Her funeral took place on 13 April, and
she is survived by her husband Steve, and her two children Elliot and Lucas. Agnès was an enthusiastic member of Molesey Photographic Club, Kingston Camera Club and Richmond & Twickenham Photographic Society, and a highly talented photographer who travelled the world in pursuit of her passion. Antarctica, Greenland, Iceland, India and Myanmar are among the locations she visited with her camera. On Agnès’s website she says, “Travel is my passion. When I am not in the studio
photographing babies, pets and families, you will find me somewhere around the globe, photographing the beauties of the world.” Over the years she enjoyed success in a great many club competitions, and her photographs were widely admired. In March this year she was awarded the Associate of the Royal Photographic Society distinction with a panel of pictures taken in Valencia. In our pictorial tribute to Agnès, we’ll let her wonderful pictures do the talking, and our thoughts go out to her family and friends.
Above Agnès on her trip to Greenland
Above left Brown eyed boy Above right Those eyes
Above Namibian skies
Above Flamingo kiss
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