Nina Thilo
43 artworks by Nina Thilo.
Last artwork was added this month.
I’ve been taking photographs since primary school. I took my camera with me from an early age, and certainly on trips, and at some point, taking photographs became as natural as breathing.
What interests me is rarely the obvious subject matter. I look for the unusual. The texture of a wall, the light that changes everything for a moment, the curious things that nobody photographs because they seem too ordinary — or too strange. A yellow watering can on a cemetery cross. Lifebuoys. Doors. Water so close it becomes abstract. The familiar seen from an angle that makes it seem strange.
I am a deep diver. This applies to my portrait work (I am a portrait and boudoir photographer for women) just as much as to the way I walk through a foreign city or a familiar landscape. I walk slowly and let myself drift; I look for a long time; I return with images that others have missed — because they had already moved on.
My travels have taken me to Croatia, Wales, Venice and many other places. What I bring back are not souvenirs but observations. Moments when the light was right, the subject was waiting, and I happened to be there.
