Fine Art - Professional

Illusions, Visual Tricks and Contradictions

Lisa Powers
New Zealand

Nominee

"Illusions, Visual Tricks and Contradictions"
My "portrait" of the Last Empress of China, who died in prison and her remains were never found.

Biography: I was born in the south of France. My heritage is of French/Italian lineage. My family and I moved to New York when I was ten years old. I began learning photography when I quit my day-job in a small advertising agency for a job in a large commercial photo studio. My ambition was to become a professional freelance commercial photographer and I learned by watching the studio photographers shoot in the daytime, then shooting for myself with models at night. I learned more by artistic experimentation than technical correctness since I had no technical knowledge. This was in the film era,...

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