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British photographer

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Natalie Aniela Dybisz (born ), known professionally as Miss Aniela, is a British fine-artfashion 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]

Early life

Dybisz was born in 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 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 and , 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 , she started Surreal Fashion, which described as "where fashion meets fine art, beauty meets absurdity, and couture meets chaos."^[17][21] In , 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 , 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 inspired and informed her Birth Undisturbed series.

They also have a daughter, born /^[17][23]

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