My work is about perception. I make use of geometry and abstraction as a visual language to create photographic compositions that may exist with independence from our visual references of the real world. In my process many times I work in multiples such as diptychs and triptychs. The images are usually fragmented and abstractions that represent a distorted reality.
Psychological Landscapes explores the idea of our thought images. Landscapes from our imagination, from our feelings.
Brazilian photographer Ana Leal pursues themes of natural environment and contemplation in her artworks. Inspired by minimalism and the Concretism movement in Brazil, Leal pairs down her predominantly abstract photographs depicting stillness and structure. She uses both film and digital cameras to capture imagery she observes, stages or edits to invite the viewers into contemplation in the inner labyrinths of her subjects.
Leal (b. 1969, Brazil) currently works and lives in São Paulo, Brazil. She completed her Master of Fine Arts at Miami International University of Arts and Design in 2018.
Awards 2021 Tokyo International Foto Awards - Gold Winner Fine Art- Abstract
2021 Rotterdam Photo - Special Mention
2020 15th Julia Margaret Cameron award’s non-prof - Winner Abstract
2020 15th Julia Margaret Cameron award’s non-prof - Honorable Mention Fine Art
2020 15th Pollux award’s non-prof - Honorable Mention Fine Art
2020 Airland 3.0 - Inside Land - Winner
2019 Prix de la Photographie Paris - Honorable Mention
2018 Latin America 7 - Honorable Mention
