Anneleen Lindsay

Anneleen Lindsay is a professional freelance photographer, based in Edinburgh and working throughout the UK. Her photography focuses on creative storytelling portraiture, longterm documentary projects and regularly explores the interplay between people and their environments. Her work looks at the endurance of nature and themes of community, creativity, activism, representations of womanhood, class and disability. She is interested in psychogeography and asks questions over land usage and ownership.

Anneleen photographs both real and imagined relationships between individuals and nature. In her more styled, creative portraiture and fashion photography she references Gothic literature and the rich colours and spiritual and emotional symbolism of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, selecting locations, props and costumes to conjure scenes and invite the viewer to project a story or character on to the subject. In her documentary work, she is both observational and relational, aiming to record emotional honesty and celebrate creativity and community.

Anneleen was a finalist in 4 categories of the 11th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards for Women Photographers. She was a winner in the British Journal of Photography’s ‘Portrait of Britain’ 2016, shortlisted for ‘Portrait of Britain’ 2018  and won the British Council’s ‘Shakespeare Lives in Photography’ competition. Anneleen was shortlisted for the RPS Documentary Awards 2023, won the ‘Freelancer of the Year’ Award in the Creative Edinburgh Awards, won the AOP / Fixation Assistant Award and was selected for the Portrait Salon.

Anneleen’s photographs have been exhibited internationally in over 30 countries and in over 40 exhibitions. Her work  has been featured in the Guardian, New York Times, London Evening Standard, The Scotsman, and Mujer Hoy, Feroce, Amber and Benugo magazines.

Anneleen also runs workshops and provides one-to-one mentoring in photography and creativity.

She is a member of POST Collective, Spilt Milk Collective and the Royal Photographic Society.

Locations: Scotland

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