Inga Lísa Middleton

Inga Lísa Middleton (born December 9, 1964) is an Icelandic photographer and film maker recently specialising in producing her photographs as cyanotype prints. She has also directed several films, such as the anthology Comedy drama Dramarama, and the short film Búi, which won the short film award at the SCHLINGEL International Film Festival. Her photographs have gone on to be shown in Iceland, Denmark, Japan and the United Kingdom.

Education Inga Lísa Middleton was born in Reykjavík, Iceland, and performed her Icelandic University Entrance Exam at Menntaskólinn við Sund. It was during this time where she created her first animated short film, Mommy, Daddy, Bobby and Debby, of which was sold off to the British television channel, Channel 4.

After university, she went on to complete a two-year postgraduate course at the Royal College of Art in London, England.

Photography In 2017, Middleton showed off her first photograph exhibition, titled Thoughts of Home, a series of cyanotype prints documenting the wildlife and natural environments of Iceland. The project was first exhibited at the Icelandic Embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark, and the National Museum of Iceland in Reykjavík, Iceland. 2018 also saw the reveal of Middleton's second art project, Tip of the Iceberg; cyanotype prints of icebergs, with only the iceberg's tip not submerged under water. She has also gone on record as being influenced by the work of Carl Jung, specifically his book Man and His Symbols.