Daniele Mah
Daniele Mah is a British Chinese/Italian portrait photographer specializing in photographing artists with a particular emphasis on women artists. It is her personal conception and an ongoing project that started seven years ago during conversations with the art critic Edward Lucie-Smith. Her resulting photographs, with their artistic references, have been exhibited in several exhibitions. "Many of Mah's past assignments as a professional portrait photographer have been for high-profile newspapers and magazines. As a portrait photographer, and with her deep passion for art and photography, she found herself naturally drawn to figurative art. Varied and engaging as they are, this series, Flowers & Figures is different. At the beginning of the pandemic and the first lockdown of March 2020 Daniele found herself in France and ended up being there for an extended period while the world went into panic and lockdown. Despite the gloomy sentiment mother nature carried on and spring flowers started to bloom everywhere. Daily walks in the remote parts of the south of France became an exciting opportunity to find more wild flowers. She started photographing the flowers in her studio and collected a small portfolio of flowers. For someone who had never photographed anything but people professionally this was an exciting and inspiring new adventure. These have now blossomed beautifully into two parts, the flower collection and a collection which blends her figurative work with these beautiful flowers. Flowers themselves symbols of femininity and beauty merged perfectly into and onto the female form. They have blossomed into a collection of sensual, and colorful images, a celebration of mother nature and the power and beauty of the female form.
