Beware; for I am fearless and therefore powerful.
Hullo! I’m Dee aka elegia.
I’m a Scottish self-taught photographer based in Manchester, UK.
I work with a variety of mediums, but primarily analog. My background and education is in fine art and I fell into photography via modelling back in 2011-ish. I love cinema, music, architecture and design, and my work is very much inspired by all of these things.
I’ve been lucky to have had my work published and exhibited internationally. My goal has always been about seeing and feeling my images either in print or hung up on a wall. Creating with tangible imagery is what really drives me. There’s just nothing else quite like it.
I’m online a lot.
(I hope you like cats).
I work with models, musicians and actors of all levels of experience. For queries regarding my rates, print purchases, publications and all of that jazz; please ping me an email: iamelegia@gmail.com
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Exhibitions
West Art Collective Presents ‘Indelicate 4.0’
March 9th, 2024
Antwerp Mansion, Manchester
‘Blue’
October 7th - November 2nd, 2023
Glasgow Gallery of Photography
‘Representation On The Line: (Un)framing Our Identities’ Part II.
Hundred Heroines by The Royal Photographic Society showcasing women in photography.
August 31st - September 30th, 2019HIVE, 80-82 Church Street, Blackpool.
‘Representation On The Line: (Un)framing Our Identities’ Part II.
June 2019Hundred Heroines by The Royal Photographic Society showcasing women in photography.
Heroines Hub in Chelsea, London.
‘Photography on a Postcard’
October 12th – October 25th, 2017
The PrintSpace: Shoreditch, London.
‘Polaroid Is Not Dead’ : Expolaroid
April 9th – May 1st, 2016
Hotel Pasteur: Rennes, France.
SHVR: Traditional & Diverging Views of Beauty, Romance & Darkness
October 31st & November 13th/14th/15th 2015
The Fruit: Durham, NC.
‘Impossible presents 8 x 8’
February 20th – February 22nd 2015
The Hoxton Gallery: London, UK.
‘Chemistry: New Instant Photography’
June 10th – July 27th 2014
The Jam Factory: Oxford, UK.
‘Wanrooij meets Raw Beauty’
June 6th – June 21st 2014
Wanrooij Gallery: Amsterdam.
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Print Publications
Photodarium Classic Calendar, 2023.
Photodarium Private Calendar, 2023.
Photodarium Classic Calendar, 2019.Photodarium Private Calendar, 2019.
The Optiko Journal, 2018.
Photodarium Classic Calendar, 2018.
Photodarium Private Calendar, 2018.
Practical Photography Magazine, December 2017.
LOV Zine, Issue #2: Portraits
Hylas Magazine, Volume 1: Loss
She Shoots Film, Issue 1: Self Portrait
Monochrome Magazine, Issue 4: Instant
Femme Fotale, Volume III: Analog
Photodarium Classic Calendar, 2017.
Photodarium Private Calendar, 2017.
‘elegia : Self-portraits’ – A Quite Delightful Monograph.
Issue Two of The Quite Delightful Project : ‘Quite Lovely’.
‘Raw Beauties’ – A Polaroid Project (Book).
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Online interviews & features
Analog Forever Magazine
Sunny 16 Podcast
Lomography
PRYME
LOV Zine
DRECK
Impossible Magazine
BLUR Magazine
Float Magazine
Analog Magazine
Analogue Vibes
Light Leaked
Emulsive
Fragmentary
Whattaroll