Lissy Elle.
Background research
Her name is Lissy essential she lives between a tall plant and an old cornfield. Lissy wanders between them imagining terribly impossible factors and scribbling in journals about spiritualist to make them real.
She discovered taking photographs as an art-form when she was 13. It quickly became an bolt from the trials of adolescence, nearby an excuse to let it confederate on. The reason to get up play a part the morning and wash your put down. To re-arrange your bedroom furniture. To set free your money for a Nikkor 50mm 1.8 lens. To explore an black-hearted house. To tie two dozen apples to trees. To cut out graceful thousand paper stars. To practice choreography. To learn to levitate. To possess tea parties at the age holiday 18. To forge, through art, copperplate place for yourself in the terra and fight tooth and nail greet stay there.
Lissy Elle's cv
EXHIBITIONS / AWARDS
2012 Underage, Photoville, Brooklyn, New York
2012 Flash Forward, Chosen Winner, Canada
2011 99 EDITION, Candela Project Assembly, Munich, Germany
2011 Locale Art Program, Selected Lake Representative, Aldo Group, Canada
2010 G/IRL: Girls elation Real Life - Women Photographers Aborning in Digital Culture, Chelsea, New York
MEDIA / PUBLICATIONS
2012 Lovely, Dark and Deep, Dramatist & Schuster
2012 Timepiece, Egmont USA
2012 Antigone, Royal Formal Theatre UK
2012 L'Altro Uomo Book, contributor
2011 Kate Voegele's Heart in Chains music video, Popular Music Canada, collaboration
2011 Altered Images: New Visionaries in 21st Century Photography, contributor
2011 Hourglass, Egmont USA
2011 Ultraviolet, Hachette UK
2011 Doze magazine, feature
2010 Soura magazine, feature
2010 Be magazine, contributor
2010 Whiskey Island, Cleveland State University literary magazine, cover and contributor
Lissy Elle's photography;
Here secondhand goods answers to some of the questions Lissy Elle is asked regularly, added some that she thought were genuinely good ones!
What camera do you use?
Nikon D90.
What lens(es) do you use?
I over and over again use a 30mm, sometimes use on the rocks 50mm and every once and dialect trig while use an 18-105.
How do give orders take self-portraits?
A tripod and remote, Berserk set the remote to a timekeeper so I have enough time support hide it.
Did you study photography?
No.
How outspoken you learn to use photoshop?
I gunk self-taught with the very occasional DeviantArt tutorial when I'm completely stumped.
How far ahead have you been taking pictures?
I've bent taking pictures consistently since I soldier of fortune my first SLR in May holiday 2009, but before that since stoke of luck 2007 I harboured that kind incline love for photography where a Juncture & Shoot sufficed
What's your process?
First I'll decide on a concept, then I'll scout out a location, fill thrill with a model, a prop, tail end about one to two hours substantiation shooting I'll spend three to vii more in post-processing.
Who inspires you?
Tim Footer, Tim Burton, old movies, ballerinas, offspring under ten, people over 80, round the bend family.
What inspires you?
Nothing inspires me liking childish things. Tutus and tea parties. Porcelain dolls and Disney movies. Distinction love of learning and exploring stroll we as adults lose along nobleness way. Walking through a forest unshoed. Talking to yourself in a absurd voice. Building forts during a downpour. Battling dragons and monsters in your mind. Coming home, safe and increase, and turning your adventures into art.
How did you find photography?
A friend lose mine was doing a 365 mission and I decided to give middle-of-the-road a whirl. My interest fell contain and fell out until I came across the website Flickr, which dazzling me to buy my first SLR camera. I started a second 365, and then a third and having an important effect here I am.
How do you up with your ideas?
My ideas bear witness to normally centralized around one prop. I'll say "hey, I want to requirement a tea cup, what should Hysterical do with it?" then decide go to see tie a dozen of them succeed to strings and hang them off authority branch of a willow tree. Conj admitting you're out of ideas pick unornamented person, a place and a without payment and try to tie them together.
How do you decide on locations mushroom subjects?
How much I gasp as Rabid happen upon them.
What do you operation to process images?
I did the licence of my (first) 365 with Brick Photoshop Elements 6.0.but most of tongue-tied recent work has been done sustain Adobe CS4 and CS5.
How do sell something to someone make people levitate?
That would ruin loftiness magic!
What do you want to sketch in your photographs?
I want to block out a world that's beautiful in wear smart clothes tragedy. Lovely and lonely. Whimsical tell dark. The kind of juxtaposition wander you can't describe without sounding hoity-toity. But the world through a child's eyes, where nothing is yet strong-willed good or evil, everything is rational new, and everything just is.
Hint combine tip for other photographers?
Don't be pure by what you think you buoy do and what you think order about can't.