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I’ve had a fascination with the Arts for as long as I can remember. At sixteen, I discovered photography. From the moment I picked up a camera, something just felt right.
My name is Ana Sofia. I’m Portuguese, and I moved to the UK to follow this dream of mine. Studying photography at Cambridge School of Art over the past three years has shaped me deeply — not only in how I see through the lens, but in how I see the world.
I’ve developed a strong connection with fashion photography, both outdoors and studio. I also found myself drawn to landscape photography, and the raw honesty of nude photography. These areas let me explore emotion, light, in different but powerful ways.
Fashion photography pushes me to experiment with composition and lighting, while landscape photography offers moments of stillness. Nude photography reveals the beauty and vulnerability of the human body, capturing emotions that transcend words.
Each provides a unique opportunity to connect with both the subject and environment, deepening my understanding of the world.
Photography has become my voice in this world — a way to express what I feel, without having to say a word.
Form and Nature is a monochrome photographic series that reflects on the relationship between the human body and the natural world. It draws on the past – when humanity livid connected with nature, relying on it for survival and belonging where everything was fluid, connected, one.
In-between space, where subtle echoes of that unity that exists. The connection of branches mirroring a hand, the texture of bark resembling skin. These visual parallels speak of a recognition, a shared language that persists even if we do not look for these similarities.
In the present, where this connection grows fragile. As the world accelerates – fast, artificial – we drift further and further from the natural patterns that once grounded us. Using black and white photography as a reflective timeless medium, this work captures emotional visual dialogue between form and nature.
The absence of faces throughout the series is intentional. When removing the identity, the figures become universal, an invitation for a deeper connection, to the shared existence between human form and the natural world.
A reminder of what we once were, a call to notice, to remember and perhaps return to that deep connection we once held.
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