Natalie Dybisz

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Natalie Dybisz
Born1986 (age 37–38)
Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
Education University of Sussex
Known forFine-art fashion photography
Notable workSurreal Fashion
StyleSurrealism, baroque
SpouseMatthew Lennard
Website Official website

Natalie Aniela Dybisz (born 1986), known professionally as Miss Aniela, is a British fine-art fashion and surrealist photographer. [1] [2] [3] [4] Selvedge describes her work as a "fus[ion of] traditional photography with digitally enhanced motifs and surrealism." [5]

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Early life

Dybisz was born in 1986 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. [4] A self-taught photographer, [1] [6] she began taking self-portraits at 15 but began focusing on it at 21 while studying English and Media at the University of Sussex. [2] [4] [7] [8] [9]

Dybisz started posting her self-portraits on Flickr in April 2006 and quickly garnered online popularity. [7] After leaving university, she assumed she wouldn't be able to commit fully or professionally to photography for another year or two at least. [10] Five months later, however, she was contacted by Microsoft and asked to speak at their Pro Photo Summit in Seattle about digital photography. [7] [8] At this point, she decided to quit her job to pursue photography full-time. [10]

Photography

Dybisz utilizes models and practical effects in the first part of her process, then does digital post-production using Photoshop. [5] [6] She is inspired by her environment, dreams, experiences, literature, and fine art, particularly 16th-century chiaroscuro artists, such as Caravaggio. [3] [2] [5] [11] [12] She has shot in mansion, castles, and stately homes in France and England, such as Château de Champlâtreux, and in other locations such as abandoned buildings. [13] [11] [3] [12] Normal Magazine described her work as "combin[ing] baroque aesthetics and the directives of commercial work." [11]

Dybisz and her husband Matthew host the Fashion Shoot Experience, a workshop held in interesting shooting locations in London, Los Angeles, New York, Iceland, and other countries in Europe. [9] [8] [14] In 2010 and 2017, Dybisz was named "One to Watch" by the Saatchi Gallery in London. [15] [16] [17] She also teaches courses on photography and photoshop. [18] [19] She has been featured in El País , NY Arts, Plastik Magazine, TechMag, American Photo, Playboy Spain, ALARM Magazine, and Vogue Italia . [9] [7] [12] Exhibition locations include Saatchi Gallery, Houses of Parliament, Waldemarsudde, and Vouge Italia's space in Milan. [12] [5] [9] Kai Mayfair and Hôtel de Crillon have also displayed her work. [20] [15]

Dybisz's first professional exhibition was "locally in Brighton" while her Self-Gazing series of self-portraits were the first to be invited internationally. [8] [12] The Ecology series was one of her earlier collections and showed the "relationship between humans and nature through visual references to pollution, deforestation and climate engineering." [17] [8] In 2011, she started Surreal Fashion, which icanbecreative.com described as "where fashion meets fine art, beauty meets absurdity, and couture meets chaos." [17] [21] In 2014, she did a fantasy photoshoot for Nikon [14] and released her Faces collection, which "merg[es] large-scale faces with hundreds of paintings from art history." [12] In 2017, she worked both on Barocco, a collection inspired by the Baroque and Rococo eras, [22] and Birth Undisturbed, a series about childbirth as an empowering experience for women worldwide. [23] [17]

She has published two books:

Personal life

Dybisz's husband Matthew Lennard works with her under the Miss Aniela name. [8] [5] The stillborn birth of their son Evan in 2013 inspired and informed her Birth Undisturbed series. They also have a daughter, born 2014/2015. [17] [23]

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