British photographer Natalie Lennard’s ‘Surreal Fashion’ series is an example of what happens when you blur the lines between fine art and fashion photography.
Lennard, who works under the name Miss Aniela, weaves traditional imagery and digitally enhanced motifs into dreamy compositions. “I became inspired by the paintings that were around the actual locations I was shooting the models in: from prop houses in London, which had eclectic, strange, non-descript canvases hanging and laying about; to a stately home in which I did a workshop shoot, where there were magnificent works of art worth thousands of pounds. … I just wanted to somehow capture the magical fascination I felt looking at the paintings,” she said in an interview with My Modern Met.
Unlike most photographers, Lennard says that her mindset is more akin to that of a painter and sees the camera as a way to capture the materials that she later uses to create her fictional and often surreal pieces.
Take a look at some of her work below.
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