Uploads from Miss Aniela

sojourn

nobody@flickr.com (Miss Aniela) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:23:43 -0800

I initially uploaded this at 2am last night. It's inspired by Yulia Gorodinski (right through to the processing). After 10 minutes of it being public, however, I deleted it... I began to feel that whilst Yulia can make something like this work, I can't. Plus, taking inspiration from other people is supposed to be in a manner which suggests your personal direction, but I don't feel this picture does signal my direction really.

This morning, I thought, why not share it with just friends instead. I like it enough to do that :)

ok - made it public.

souls to the window

nobody@flickr.com (Miss Aniela) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:05:56 -0700

Miss Aniela posted a photo:

Dying and sending my soul into this room would, actually, have been the safest way to enter - it was absolutely lethal with its floor caving in from piles of junk that looked like a suicide bomber had turned up at Alice's tea party.

Not fully satisfied with this, but it might be Christmas by the time I've finished fiddling (though according to the TV adverts, it's not long to go anyway)... or I'll have collapsed from backache and eye strain just like the one down there on the rubble. I think I will leave it here before I go too far...

Taken at West Park Mental Asylum, Surrey.

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Scuttled

nobody@flickr.com (Miss Aniela) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:55:38 -0700

Miss Aniela posted a photo:

West Park Mental Asylum, Surrey. Another abandoned hospital we managed to get into, stepping over treacherous holes with uninsured (at the time) new cam and lens. Wait till you see the padded cell :)

I have so much I want to write on my blog, about the emotions and adrenalin of visiting a place like this...

Holes in your head today

nobody@flickr.com (Miss Aniela) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:09:07 -0700

Miss Aniela posted a photo:

All through our Hellingly trip and for about two days afterwards I had this song in my head
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm7ddqkgzFw
Now I've got it in my head again...

Collab with ML, more from Hellingly. Thought I'd share more pics than I usually put up...

Stage left

nobody@flickr.com (Miss Aniela) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:09:21 -0700

Miss Aniela posted a photo:

More from Hellingly.

I heard that this place, after 15 years of destitution - and I only knew about it for last 5 mins! - is just being demolished right now. RIP (if that is possible for a building to do...)

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Her possession

nobody@flickr.com (Miss Aniela) — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:04:37 -0700

Miss Aniela posted a photo:

Things are going to be a bit UrbEx on my stream for a while!

Collab with ML at Hellingly. Wasn't so sure about this pic and the 'extra hands' but ML convinced me to upload, was one of his fave shots.

Will upload rest of Hellingly shots before proceeding to our latest creepy antics.

The revelation

nobody@flickr.com (Miss Aniela) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:14:08 -0700

Miss Aniela posted a photo:

More from Hellingly

I am having a solo exhibition in central London, which opens this week and will be on show till the New Year... read more here.

Her fleeting imprint

nobody@flickr.com (Miss Aniela) — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:41:30 -0700

Miss Aniela posted a photo:

Hellingly Mental Asylum

Collaborative shoot with ML (I admit I would never have crept into here alone). Will shortly write a full blog post on our adventure...

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Her frame game

nobody@flickr.com (Miss Aniela) — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:26:51 -0700

Miss Aniela posted a photo:

I am exhibiting at Lyle O' Reitzel Gallery in Miami this autumn - my prints are in their collective show and at Buenos Aires Photo (see blog.) Also I'll be having a solo exhibition for six weeks in London (excited about that too!) this autumn at some point in Marylebone High Street, TBC as yet, more details to come...

This is from a very quick session with the camera, and this one shot just seemed to work. Maybe it's the question-mark hair?

Just got back from Photocamp Bradford, an excellent event which I really enjoyed, and where I gave a couple of talks. I'll write up a blog post very soon!

I am tending to update alot on Facebook, so join up there if you would like more details on these things, I'm into those neat looking update boxes...

it's nice to take self portraits again!! Inspired by this image by Lucia Holm (Miss Lulu & teaspoon shortage)

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The downpour

nobody@flickr.com (Miss Aniela) — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:49:10 -0700

Miss Aniela posted a photo:

Jane in the rain.

We wanted to extend the water theme by having Jane interact with the sea and with rain falling.. this image by Rosie Hardy was a big inspiration for this particular composition.

Can't wait to share some new self-portraits!

See my full blog post on Jane's shoot!

Reflecting

nobody@flickr.com (Miss Aniela) — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:54:10 -0700

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Jane at Beachy Head, another of my favourites.

I meant to upload this one sooner, but I've been on various camping & caravan holiday. I always dread August ending. I will savour September to the last minute, before it gives way to autumn and its dark evenings!

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Blog post on Jane's shoot

No group logos or any pics please. :)

At sea

nobody@flickr.com (Miss Aniela) — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 04:25:02 -0700

Miss Aniela posted a photo:

Jane.

Mmm, my favourites of our shoots! We drove to Beachy Head (via a stupid route that the satnav spat out) and hobbled with the equipment for a good few minutes over the pebbles till we got to a secluded end of the beach. We were surprised to pass a couple of men who had no underpants on, when we realised it was a nudist beach.

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Jane

nobody@flickr.com (Miss Aniela) — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:05:48 -0700

Miss Aniela posted a photo:

Last one from Arundel.. next up: Jane has fun in the sea at a very hot Beachy Head :)

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Jane

nobody@flickr.com (Miss Aniela) — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:14:10 -0700

Miss Aniela posted a photo:

More from Arundel

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Jane

nobody@flickr.com (Miss Aniela) — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 02:11:52 -0700

Miss Aniela posted a photo:

Another from Swanbourne lake by Arundel Castle, styling by Rachel.

The fabric mesh that Rachel brought along seemed to add a great effect in itself... so again, I didn't want to go too far with processing :)

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Jane

nobody@flickr.com (Miss Aniela) — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:27:17 -0700

Miss Aniela posted a photo:

We moved onto (in Jane's case, into) a lake in Arundel, West Sussex...
though I did get in the lake too, barefooted, though I could've worn Jane's crocs!

Rachel Holland (stylist for this shoot) did a great job for this one in particular, weaving a hairband from wire and leaves whilst we drove to the location... to go with the white gown you see here, which is my white gown I've worn loads of time (one could say overused) in my own pics ;)

We took loads of shots, it was hard to know what to with them all processing-wise, whether to avoid overprocessing and keep them natural, or do something crazy with them!

All of the pics you are seeing here are Jane's ideas, mixed with mine, with an intention of creating images that replicated some of my self-portraits that Jane most liked... and all with a focus on celebrating Jane's 40th birthday.

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Jane

nobody@flickr.com (Miss Aniela) — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:50:14 -0700

Miss Aniela posted a photo:

Jane again, more from Devils Dyke. Jane had mentioned the idea of 'mother, maiden and crone' ie. the woman in the three stages of her life, hat she wanted to encapsulate visually. I saw that Crosswinds, an image she liked (pictured below) touched upon this idea in that the the dresses on each figure were blown differently to almost allude to maiden and mother. We directly emulated the image, recreating the mother and maiden poses, and even used the same dress. I added the third figure, the 'crone' to complete the trio. Jane also did some crawling for me, but I favoured the reclining poses in the end ;)

The processing almost makes Jane look falsely placed into the environment here, maybe went too far with the photoshop, but i like it :)

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Jane

nobody@flickr.com (Miss Aniela) — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:58:15 -0700

Miss Aniela posted a photo:

More of Jane taken at Devil's Dyke. Styling by Rachel Holland of La Luminata

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Jane

nobody@flickr.com (Miss Aniela) — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:52:54 -0700

Miss Aniela posted a photo:

I recently did a commissioned shoot for a woman called Jane, who flew down on her broomstick from Bridlington to Brighton to spend 2 days making creative portraits in the style she sees in my self-portraits, so that included trick images like this one, and clone composites too...

Thanks to stylist Rachel Holland of La Luminata who styled Jane on the first day of shooting. We started off at Devils' Dyke (above) where I revisited a certain tree I had shot before. More to come...

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On a separate note, In Her Own Image is now available to buy on Blurb! It's a book of self-portraits from 87 women with the proceeds going straight to charity. Read more here!

Pathetic phallacy

nobody@flickr.com (Miss Aniela) — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:07:52 -0700

Miss Aniela posted a photo:

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Timothy Leary

;)

The last of my collaboration with Rossina - at least for now!

Read about our entire collaboration on my blog and Rossina's blog.

Thanks Rossina and to Julie Séguinier!

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