Natalie Dybisz

Natalie Aniela Dybisz (born 1986), known professionally as Miss Aniela, is a British fine-art fashion and surrealist photographer. A self-taught photographer,

Dybisz started posting her self-portraits on Flickr in April 2006 and quickly garnered online popularity. After leaving university, she assumed she wouldn't be able to commit fully or professionally to photography for another year or two at least. Five months later, however, she was contacted by Microsoft and asked to speak at their Pro Photo Summit in Seattle about digital photography. She is inspired by her environment, dreams, experiences, literature, and fine art, particularly 16th-century chiaroscuro artists, such as Caravaggio.

Dybisz and her husband Matthew host the Fashion Shoot Experience, a workshop held in interesting shooting locations in London, Los Angeles, New York, Iceland, and other countries in Europe. She has been featured in El País, NY Arts, Plastik Magazine, TechMag, American Photo, Playboy Spain, ALARM Magazine , and Vogue Italia. The Ecology series was one of her earlier collections and showed the "relationship between humans and nature through visual references to pollution, deforestation and climate engineering." In 2014, she did a fantasy photoshoot for Nikon and released her Faces collection, which "merg[es] large-scale faces with hundreds of paintings from art history." and Birth Undisturbed, a series about childbirth as an empowering experience for women worldwide. - Ilex Press, Ltd., 2012: Creative Portrait Photography The stillborn birth of their son Evan in 2013 inspired and informed her Birth Undisturbed series. They also have a daughter, born 2014/2015.