INSIDE THE PORTFOLIO OF
Lissy Elle
“The Snow White Dilemma”
What has been the most important thing you have done to advance your career and development as an artist? Definitely the 365 project. I made great progression my first year, and when I started my second year last May I was trying to use it as a motivational tool to take photographs more often, but instead, even with several months left, I can already see the change in my style, my editing techniques and just generally how I do things.
“ My aesthetic choices are based on what I find utterly fascinating at the time.”
Talk about your process from conception to completion. Do you construct the scenes by building props, or use post processing to create your environments? I have only recently been experimenting with prop making, and had thus far been relying on my good
friend CS5. Generally to start I pick a concept from my giant list of concepts, make a mental list of the things and people I’ll need to complete it, compile those things, sketch it out, and then throw it all away almost the moment I start shooting and let spontaneity keep things interesting.
Tell us about the trajectory of your career path. How did you go from posting photos on Flickr to being represented? It was a technological path, most of it, if not all of it took place online. It was a matter of saying yes to everything that was offered to me, gaining more exposure from that, and having my work happen to fall into the right hands at the right times.