Astrid Preisz
I’m an Austrian expressive photographer with a deep respect for nature and all its creatures. I discover the wonder within the mundane and the wonders within the small issues, and I need to convey what I see and really feel with my eyes and my coronary heart. My pictures are triggered by an emotional engagement with the world surrounding me and attain from pure and concrete landscapes to small scenes to abstractions.
Tapping deeply into the wellspring of my creativity I have a look at the world from a special perspective and rejoice the quirky and the curious, acceptance and variety, inclusivity and the spirit of discovery, inspiration and creativeness – and the facility of a boundless thoughts.
Partaking with nature to reconnect with myself, I need my photos to precise all points of my emotional panorama – reaching out to the viewer.
Michéla Griffith
In 2012 I paused by my native river and every little thing modified. I’ve moved away from what many anticipate images to be: my photos deconstruct the literal and reimagine the subjective, reflecting the curiosity that water has impressed in my observe. Water has been my conduit: it has sharpened my imaginative and prescient, given me permission to experiment and continues to introduce me to new methods of seeing.
Astrid wrote a lovely article for On Panorama in 2021 about discovering creativity and the distinction that it makes to her. I very a lot recognise and agree along with her assertion that the perfect plan of action is to maintain an open thoughts. The piece was accompanied by a sequence of non-public and infrequently intimate photos, and two years on it appears a great alternative to see what different fruits time spent in nature and an absence of preconceived outputs have led to.
Would you want to begin by telling readers a bit of about your self – the place you grew up, what your early pursuits had been, and what you went on to do?
I grew up in Graz, a medium-sized metropolis in Austria surrounded by forests and mountains, so I used to be by no means removed from nature. I used to be a shy and introverted little one who all the time felt as if I did not belong. We did not have a lot, my dad and mom labored arduous, and I used to be an solely little one, so I spent plenty of time alone. I liked being exterior within the forest, dreaming up my very own worlds, writing fairy tales and poems. I did not have many associates, and I all the time felt uncomfortable round different individuals – I noticed myself as an oddball. As I received older, I attempted desperately to slot in by placing all of the issues I believed had been undesirable by society in a field and burying that field as deep as I may and placing on a masks that I wore for a lot of, a few years. I studied to develop into an interpreter and ended up working as a scientific coordinator in a analysis centre and being a caregiver for my aged and sick dad and mom – secretly mourning the imaginative little one and tormented by nervousness and melancholy.
