Anne
Geddes, born 13 September 1956, is an Australian-born photographer, clothing
designer and businesswoman who now
lives
and works in New Zealand.
She is known for
her stylized depictions of babies and motherhood. Typical images show babies or
young children dressed as fairies and fairytale creatures, flowers, or small
animals. She has described herself as "a baby freak".
Geddes
became a photographer at age 25. She had always had an interest in babies in
general, but the schools she attended did not offer photography classes. She
chose babies as her subject because of her love of them. "I had seen the
way children and babies were generally being photographed. It just didn't seem
realistic to me that people took their children along to photographic studios all
dressed in their Sunday best, photographs that didn't really show the
personality of the child."
She
believes that "emotional content is an image's most important
element" and that people are drawn to her work because of its simplicity
and personality. prefers the black-and-white scheme because she feels that
colour distracts from the image and the natural beauty of life".
Some
of her photographs:
Rihem Ben Yahya
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