Photoshop Projects Volume 14

FEATURE
JONFRID ELIASEN
FAROE
Princess
Jonfrid Eliasen grew up on the Faroe Islands.
This Scandinavian-born, Brisbane-educated
photographer takes us inside her creative world.
IMAGES
SELF-PORTRAIT
» (ABOVE)
PROWLESQUE:
THE FOX
» (RIGHT)
The brief was to
create a fashion
series with archetypal
women taking on the
personalities of
animals. I captured
the landscape in the
day so I changed it
to night by taking
out the reds and
adding blues.
Artist at Work
I’ve always wondered where my interest
in photography came from. Many people
have known all their life they’d grow
up to be artists. I wanted to be an
astronaut – until I realised I wasn’t
good at maths or science.
I’ve always had big ideas and dreams.
When I was little I thought anything was
possible. I wouldn’t just dream about
being a princess, I was going to be one.
No discussion. My parents have been
wonderful in that regard. They’ve been
right behind me, in every crazy adventure
I could think up or attempt to pursue.
I’m sure it’s because of them I remain
convinced that no dreams are too big
and no idea is unachievable.
We never really had artists in the
family. But we’ve always been crafty
people and my grandmother was
one of them. She also liked to snap the
occasional photograph. I think that’s
where I got introduced to it.
I didn’t know I wanted to be a
photographer. It hadn’t even occurred
to me, after I’d packed all my stuff and
travelled half way around the globe to
Brisbane to study a Bachelor of
Photography. I’d never owned
a DSLR prior to my arrival in Australia.
All I left home with was the feeling that
I might have the ability to perceive things
differently; to see photographs and
beauty in things others disregard.
As it happens, I graduated
my Bachelor degree three years
later in 2011 with an “Excellence in
Creative Advertising” award and later
my Honours degree in 2012 with a Griffith
award for “Academic Excellence”. I was lucky
enough to be asked to work as a university
tutor while I was studying Honours.
Moving to Brisbane was without
a doubt the scariest thing I’ve done.
I realised later that it was the best
decision I’ve ever made.
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