German artist Anja Millen has been creating art since 1984. Anja’s horrific and evocative artwork began as paintings and sketches. After visiting the European Academy of Art, she discovered the wonderful, unlimited world of digital art in 1998.
Often starting from photos she has taken herself or stock imagery, Anja strives to create worlds to which she lacks the means to create through pure photography. In the words of the artist:
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I see photography as my “oil paint” and Photoshop as my brush or my marble stone and chisel. Too much there is simply not in my style of art, rather too little, because then I’d “only” pimp a photo or something. I want to create a completely new world, in which one is best, as such, no longer recognizes the photographic items.
Manipulations and compositions have long decried of frightened and angry photographers and recognized more and more in the last few years. For many it was mainly out of fear that the quality of photography and also suffers from the reluctance to deal with products such as Photoshop. For me, photography suffers only the processing, if someone who does not know his tools, to try it, for example, to excessive beauty retouching and the like and that make said photographer unfortunately mostly self.
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Although her techniques differ from when she started, the dark and dramatic feel in her work is still there. Anja’s work shows a resemblance with the dramatic lighting of classic fine arts painters from the Baroque era, resulting in works with the same dramatic aura as the paintings of the old masters.
