Aliki Braine

 Aliki Braine is an artist who physically manipulates her photos. The titles of her different series are: Cut & Scattered, Cut & Rotated, Folded, Stickered, Punched and Inked. She explains what she has done to each set of photos through the title of the series. 

Braine uses various techniques to manipulate her work, she cuts parts out of negatives then scans the cut outs and prints them. These cut outs are all circular as if they had been holed punched, she then scatters them and wherever they land is how they are laid out. 

In another series she cuts a circle out of the middle of the image and rotates it so that it is the other way around to the rest of the image. Although this idea seems simple the outcomes are still very interesting.

In other work she creates black and white photographs from folded negatives, I really like this work, I enjoy things with physical manipulation and layers to the processes that have been involved. It changes the way that the original image was meant to be seen and gives it a whole new meaning.

In her series punched and inked she uses similar techniques, in punched she uses a whole punch to remove parts of the image and in inked she uses ink to do the same thing. I think these are my two favourite series of her as it is obvious what she is removing from the images, she doesn't try to do it slyly. In your mind you can almost imagine exactly what the photo would look like if it was still in its original form. 

I think this work relates to mine because it is about cutting out and recreating scenes, taking an original image and turning it into something else. you can really make people question and think with work like this. It makes the scenes quite abstract and adds another layer of interest to a landscape photo.