episode 043: Brit Gill

Britney Gill is someone who lives each day and moment in her truth. The longtime photographer has traveled the world shooting lifestyle, fashion, and consumer brands with the eye of an artist. She was born and raised in suburbia, the daughter of an Indian father who moved to Canada at 18-years-old from Punjab and a Caucasian mother. Her introduction to photography & cameras came from her father, who took photos as a hobby and for memory collection. Brit loved science & the body and went to school to become a dietician, eventually shifting to a different program and moving into global nutrition. She spent a life-changing seven months in Africa under international directed studies, and her vibrant career in photography followed after she began posting images from her trip on Facebook. In this conversation, we explore the story of how her parents met and her father’s love for western culture; how she found her way to photography; her journey into global nutrition and food policy, security & distribution; her observations of the entrepreneurial and community spirit of the African people; what ethical capitalism and the free market mean to her; things she’s learned about herself and the world in the last two years; how she finds beauty; her new workspace Studio Kou and a new creative project Nowhere; and more.