Born in 1970, Anne is a British artist best known for her large-scale photographic work of unusual interior spaces. She earned her MA in Photography at the Royal College of Art in 2000 and works in London.
Anne's images appear to be photographs of existing places but are actually carefully constructed sets, created by her in her studio, which she photographs. Subject matter includes junk she has found in markets, urban skips or jumple sales. the type of objects she chooses have ranged form antlers, brightly colored cables, old xmas trees, light bulbs, basketballs, baloons, test tubes & butterfiles. Anne puts these everyday objects together and transforms them into unusual almost dreamlike environments which critics describe as unnerving with themes of abandonment and desolation.
Angela Strassheim
Born in 1969 in Bloomfield, Iowa. Before recieving her MFA from Yale in 2003, Angela became certified as a forensic photographer. She did crime scene, evidence, and surveillance photography in Miami and, while working in New York, photographed autopsies. Her first exhibition work was a photograph of a naked woman on an unkempt bed who had committed suicide, and subsequent photographs feature a hospital x-ray room, a body in an open casket, and a bloddy surgical saw. but many of Angela's vivid color photographs depict less dramatic, even banal, objects and figures, and she identifies her subject matter as "the Midwest and the middle-class American family with the dog, etc." yet the lessons of forensics have lingered, and scientific detachment, meticulous symmetry, and clinical lighting pervade each of her images. I think her more recent work is very interesting focusing on scenes from life of her family and friends. they have mysterious yet timeless quality about them even though they are very average events.
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