from "A Secret Place"
from "A Secret Place"
from "A Secret Place"
from "A Secret Place"
from "Diary 08/09"
from "Diary 08/09"
From her website:
Eleanor's work embodies the idea of daydreaming the banality and routine of daily life into something more mystical, playful and beautiful; it is a reflection of a world where surrealism meets realism. Her photographs covey a juxtaposition between being lost in the world's perplexity, whilst finding beauty in all things, where a soft and whimsical romanticism meets wistfulness and yearning.
Sometimes you just can't say things better than they've already been said, and Eleanor Hardwick's artist statement is spot on in describing her work (as a successful artist statement should be). Eleanor's imagery is beautiful, quiet and stunning in its simplicity. Although she sometimes employs more elaborate sets that had to be constructed for the image, they still seem effortless or "found" as it were. The images I've posted from her Diary 08/09 series are the type of pictures that I admire and struggle with creating: captures of the everyday that seem perfect and still and infinite -- somehow beautiful in their ordinariness.
At only 17 years old, I am beyond impressed with her work and I can't even begin to imagine how her works will progress as she gets older and more experienced. I see only good things to come from Eleanor Hardwick.
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