She

She is an ongoing series, which explores the relationship between the subject and the photographer. For me, it is a relationship of equality, therefore I see the subject, rather than look upon it as an object. I look to identify myself within the subject, understand it, make it feel comfortable; enabling me to intuitively capture fleeting moments or beauty that may otherwise remain hidden. My works are mirrors, reflections of memory, romantic ways of seeing. Every image I capture, whether literally or metaphorically, is a self-portrait, a reflection of who I amâ?¦ each image echoing my fragmented existence. I draw upon the materiality of photography and often draw inspiration from romantic narratives of the nineteenth century, specifically those occurring in literature and art, to symbolically reference my preoccupation with time, and to acknowledge the impossibility of living within a romanticised memory of the past.

Ula Blocksage is a photographic artist, currently pursuing a Masters at the South Australian School of Art in Adelaide, Australia. She has exhibited in various countries including Australia and France and has featured in many publication including the Paris Normandy Newspaper, Adelaide Review and Attitude Magazine. Having grown up in the UK and Australia, Ula now travels back and forth between her two homelands creating photographic art, making moving image work, playing music, reading poetry and drinking cups of tea. Ula has always felt an overwhelming desire to turn back time, to the great eras of the past, which better correspond with her personality and mentality. Having romanticised about previous epochs in her mind from an early age, Ula uses her practice to acknowledge and explore associated feelings of desire, loss, isolation (both physical and temporal) and melancholia; creating symbolic metaphors and romantic narratives, which attempt to communicate the beauty, pain, quietness and stillness of recollection.