- Janice Alamanou
Combining her photographic virtuosity with her deeprooted poetic vision and innate sensitivity, British fine art photographer Janice Alamanou adds a rhapsodic dimension to the art of capturing photographs, creating lyrical epiphanies that enhance the viewer's perceptual experiences. Alamanou's subjects are portrayed in a symbolic, ethereal, and otherworldly fashion through her creative manipulation of light.
The Norfolk, UK-based artist has gained international recognition for her distinctively photography, amalgamated with precious metals such as gold and palladium, and printed on Hahnemuhle fine art paper. Using a suite of techniques including long exposure photography and neutral density lens filters to produce the desired effects that are nearly impossible to replicate using digital manipulation, Alamanou's photographs are sharp with lyrical concepts. Specialized in both color and black and white fine art, portraiture, and landscape photography, Alamanou owns her exclusive gallery in Norfolk, England.
What are the core fundamentals themes of your work in the past, and now in the present?
“I began with landscape and seascape photography. My love for the environment was triggered at a very young age, depicting my surroundings, and later developing this into panoramic, multiple images stitched together. I went on to include portraiture and fine art nudes, my passion for people and their lives - a constant source of inspiration and intrigue, and the next natural step from this was to amalgamate the two passions into my 'Soul Elements' Collection. I now do each separately and together. My newest work is going back to the landscape and cityscapes but creating in a predominantly white - The White Collection. Ultimately I have my 'Photography with Precious Metals' Collection. Photography with 24ct Gold, palladium, and copper - hand gilded. These are unique and pioneering pieces. The concept of the pieces, including copper, is that the image will verdigris and continue to change within the picture itself. Each step from landscape to portraiture, fine art nudes to amalgamations with the environment, back to the environment in whites, and photography with precious metals have all been my work evolving over the years. The core fundamental theme is and has always been the environment and people.”