Elizabeth James | The Work

Statement

Elizabeth James was drawn to photography as a child when she was given her first automatic camera aged 9 years. The art form of photographic expression has assisted her journey of self discovery and aspirations. The work often involves taking a closer look, viewing the world from a different perspective, up close and personal. Simplifying, highlighting, showcasing and simply conveying the atmosphere in an instant often missed by the naked eye. Exploration of the texture and the essence of a subject, embracing colour or tone, observing shape and form in greater detail. Capturing the visual rhythms in natural flow is a way of gaining a glimpse of our environment we barely notice or have words for but connects us all. Capturing the visual rhythms in natural flow is a way of gaining a glimpse of our environment we barely notice or have words for but connects us all. Her strength as a photographer is not so much in creating something new, but in bringing to the fore how things are.