Miss Aniela Photography

My proudest moment was having the face of my mischievous canine gracing the BBC studio:

As posted on Flickr
I was interviewed by the BBC yesterday afternoon, and it was featured on the evening South East news.

You can see the interview on YouTube

The famous video of Kylie Minogue’s Can’t Get You Out Of My Head, (2001) directed by Dawn Shadworth, which picked up 5 awards for Creative & Design. And my next artistic reference.

I remembered thinking there was something different about this video I was when I first saw it. And after realising it had artistic merit, I had to upload a mention on here. Definitely something about the body and eye movement in the video that is central to the surrealism I aim for in my photographic mind’s eye when I create my own work. Or at least, I will aim for after seeing this video again today.

From the car sequence, to the famous white dress, to the waving head of curls at the last scene, the video is fascinating in even just how it manages to present Kylie’s body as infinitely tall whilst maintaining her 5ft-3 impiness. Ms Minogue is a beautiful woman, but most pop stars are, and most pop star videos exaggerate their beauty mostly in banal or cliched ways, but this video is something a bit more experimentative. Futuristic, yes, but that wasn’t the main appeal to me - it was more the halo of light behind her head as she writhes high-angle above the camera in the white dress - the dress which seems to cover her up and yet allow her to be completely naked at the same time; the way in which she emerges into the frame with a head of bouncing ringlets two thirds through the song, backdropped by a new dark cityscape.

A little ironic influence could perhaps be seen in Ave Aniela!

References for the above images:
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Cyber photo sharers are invited to email their images to the The Elysee Museum in Switzerland, where they are running an exhibition of the people called ‘We are all photographers now!’ They get through displaying the thousands of contributions a few hundred a day - and here were mine (they email you a picture of your work on display).
http://www.elysee.ch/

Very fed up with Flickr today. I’m at a low ebb. I know my success so far, is down to Cyberspace - down to Flickr, but I know also that ultimately my artwork (and everyone else’s on there) stands within its own right. Flickr artists’ work, even if it developed through one’s Flickr experience as did mine, should be seen as independent of the ‘containers’ like Flickr which are only valid in that they showcase the art.

One day in the hopefully near future my website will function independently of the photo-sharing site. I don’t like being under the power of another operation, censoring what they think doesn’t fit, not that I desperately want to upload nudes (I think putting nudes on the internet is risky full stop, which means the Flickr experience is useful in that it shows what is considered ‘dirty’ in the mainstream consensus itself) but I look forward to the day when I don’t have to worry about what could happen to my stream if a higher power chooses to flick a button.

I am aware however that the community Flickr brings together is a crucial aspect. That’s how so many people see each other’s work. Not as many people (by far!) will come to my site as they would come to my Flickr stream, because lots of different people’s images can be seen there in the same arena. And that is why I want to stick with Flickr as much as possible, but I will welcome new ways of diversifying the way I show my work. My exhibition, for instance, will show my images physically, and will be independent of a nipple-censoring network.
Anyway, still preparing for the exhibition, thanks for all your support on that so far. x

Next week 5000 of me will be disseminated throughout the cafes and galleries of East Sussex… above shows the flyer advertising my first art exhibition, which will be throughout the month of April 2007 at North Laine Photography, upstairs at Snoopers’ Paradise, Kensington Gardens, Brighton.

If you are in the UK I hope you can come along to the event, which will be up at the first opening buds of Spring - a selected range of my work, ‘cloning’ and beyond.