Art In Writing.: Linking Photographic Art With Art In Writing.

So, I'm currently applying to universities to study a BA Hons degree in English Literature and my photography tutor Penny is helping me think of links between photography and literature.

Of course they say 'a picture's worth a thousand words' so I could interpret photos and write essays or poems about them...

Or there's always the 'book art' that I looked at...

But then there's something else...something special...

British photographer Kirsty Mitchell (who has worked for Alexander McQueen and Hussein Chalayan) recently (in 2011) left her fashion career behind to focus on her fabulous art full time.

When her mother became ill a few years before, Mitchell submerged herself in photographing the melancholy she found on local streets in order to let out her inner sadness. Then, after her mother's death in 2008, she began to think about all of the wonderful stories that her mother would tell her as a child.

And this led her to 'Wonderland'...

Mitchell's other-wordly images each take a lot of pain-staking planning, gathering, painting and setting up before the beautiful final image can be created, and the affect is astounding.

She has created a photobook of her amazing photos and it has been sold around the world as everyone wants to see the bright yet dainty characters.

A lot of the photographs even include books, to link them back to the concept of Mitchell's idea.