JULY 2010
Ashley Lebedev
Twin Cities, MN
“Faerieland”
Faerieland is a brain child project. I’ve always been very interested in aspects of fantasy as I find them incredibly youthful and inspiring. With Faerieland, I’ve really tried to find a balance between that part of me and my seemingly endless love affairs with natural light, on location portraiture, vintage everything, and elements found within nature. I’ve melded my favorite things into (what I intend to be) a very authentic and atmospheric storyboard, in which I’ve written and designed a world of magical places and characters (some more than others) that we all might see aspects of ourselves in, in one way or another.
I took notes. I slept outside underneath briars during a normal work day. I sat on the forest floor looking up at the canopy, right in the mix of animals like deer and rabbits and birds. It’s amazing when you sit there long enough, what becomes comfortable with you. I recorded what I heard everywhere I went on my mp3 player, and put it on repeat with solo piano tracks for a full month. It was all I listened to. I wanted to understand nature as well as how far we stray from it, and how I was going to visually relay what it meant to come back to it, metaphorically. It is my hope, in continuing this storyboard, that children are going to be able to look at this collection and see an amazing dream world of magic, and adults are going to be able to look at the same pieces and see the symbolism and intention. This collection is my main focus, and I plan to continue shooting it through fall of 2010.
I’m a 27 year old Conceptual Photographer & writer based in the Twin Cities, MN – USA. After I attended school for Commercial Photography, I made the decision to venture away from conventional photographic style and developed a very specific taste for telling stories through the lens. I want each piece I create to evoke an emotional response or relay a lingering message.
Visit Ashley’s website for more images and contact information:
www.BottleBellPhotography.com
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