Juliette de Salle, Belgian photographer

Biography
	Born 1973 in Brussels, Belgium.
	Graduated in Architecture and attended workshops for 8 years in painting, drawing and interior design at the Visual Arts Academies of St Gilles and Ixelles (Brussels), as well as at the International Summer Academy of Libramont (Belgium).
	Whilst working as an Urban Lighting Designer, Juliette developed and exhibited her creative works (lamps, photographs) in Brussels ("Parcours d’Artistes" in 2002 and 2004, "Nature" in 2005). Her photographs were nominated for the Hamesse Prize in 2004 and 2005.
	Since having moved to Thailand in early 2006, she has been working full-time on several photographic and painting projects. All photographs shown here were taken in Juliette de Salle’s home, or a few yards from where she lives. Indeed, any subject can be turned into art. Juliette’s photographs are driven by a powerful sense of aesthetics tending to abstraction. Yet, they manage to capture the unrevealed as well as the fragility of what we see before our eyes for that instant in time just before we go on our way, or just before the object fades away.
About the Artist "Everything has its beauty - but not everyone sees it", Confucius. Juliette de Salle is an artist who finds inspiration through the lens of a camera. She sees beauty and visualises her photography by looking at the most mundane of objects. She says "The camera can draw out remarkable and strange images that the naked eye sometimes cannot see." She looks beyond the obvious, she sees patterns, and textures in such things as broken drinking glasses. It’s important for her to reduce the scene; employing close-ups and the use of short focal lengths, so as to make the "recognisable almost unrecognisable". Art Critic Michael Bulley on Jan. 31st 07 on occasion of the opening of "Abstract Distractions"

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