Natalie Aniela Dybisz (born 1986), known professionally as Miss Aniela, is a British fine-art fashion and surrealist photographer. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]} Selvedge describes her work as a "fus[ion of] traditional photography with digitally enhanced motifs and surrealism." ^[5]

Dybisz was born in 1986 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. ^[4] A self-taught photographer, ^{[1] [6]} she began taking self-portraits at 15 but began focusing on it at 21 while studying English and Media at the University of Sussex. ^{[2] [4] [7] [8] [9]}

Dybisz started posting her self-portraits on Flickr in April 2006 and quickly garnered online popularity. ^[7] After leaving university, she assumed she wouldn't be able to commit fully or professionally to photography for another year or two at least. ^[10] Five months later, however, she was contacted by Microsoft and asked to speak at their Pro Photo Summit in Seattle about digital photography. ^{[7] [8]} At this point, she decided to quit her job to pursue photography full-time. ^[10]

Dybisz utilizes models and practical effects in the first part of her process, then does digital post-production using Photoshop. ^{[5] [6]} She is inspired by her environment, dreams, experiences, literature, and fine art, particularly 16th-century chiaroscuro artists, such as Caravaggio. ^{[3] [2] [5] [11] [12]} She has shot in mansion, castles, and stately homes in France and England, such as Château de Champlâtreux, and in other locations such as abandoned buildings. ^{[13] [11] [3] [12]} Normal Magazine described her work as "combin[ing] baroque aesthetics and the directives of commercial work." ^[11]

Dybisz and her husband Matthew host the Fashion Shoot Experience, a workshop held in interesting shooting locations in London, Los Angeles, New York, Iceland, and other countries in Europe. ^{[9] [8] [14]} In 2010 and 2017, Dybisz was named "One to Watch" by the Saatchi Gallery in London. ^{[15] [16] [17]} She also teaches courses on photography and photoshop. ^{[18] [19]} She has been featured in El País, NY Arts, Plastik Magazine, TechMag, American Photo, Playboy Spain, ALARM Magazine, and Vogue Italia. ^{[9] [7] [12]} Exhibition locations include Saatchi Gallery, Houses of Parliament, Waldemarsudde, and Vouge Italia's space in Milan. ^{[12] [5] [9]} Kai Mayfair and Hôtel de Crillon have also displayed her work. ^{[20] [15]}

Dybisz's first professional exhibition was "locally in Brighton" while her Self-Gazing series of self-portraits were the first to be invited internationally. ^{[8] [12]} The Ecology series was one of her earlier collections and showed the "relationship between humans and nature through visual references to pollution, deforestation and climate engineering." ^{[17] [8]} In 2011, she started Surreal Fashion, which icanbecreative.com described as "where fashion meets fine art, beauty meets absurdity, and couture meets chaos." ^{[17] [21]} In 2014, she did a fantasy photoshoot for Nikon ^[14] and released her Faces collection, which "merg[es] large-scale faces with hundreds of paintings from art history." ^[12] In 2017, she worked both on Barocco, a collection inspired by the Baroque and Rococo eras, ^[22] and Birth Undisturbed, a series about childbirth as an empowering experience for women worldwide. ^{[23] [17]}

She has published two books:

• 2011: Self-portrait Photography: The Ultimate in Personal Expression ^{[9] [24]} - Ilex Press, Ltd., ISBN  9781907579165
• 2012: Creative Portrait Photography ^[9] - Octopus Books, ISBN  9781781570142

Dybisz's husband Matthew Lennard works with her under the Miss Aniela name. ^{[8] [5]} The stillborn birth of their son Evan in 2013 inspired and informed her Birth Undisturbed series. They also have a daughter, born 2014/2015. ^{[17] [23]}

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