...and so I curled up next to her

• Wednesday, 21 July 2010
• By Zoe Bruce
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SHOWCASING : JESSICA TREMP

'When I was little I used to dream about being a dancer or that I could fly and that I would learn to speak the language of the animals in the forest or that of the most dramatic actor. With the click of a finger I’ve found a way to make these things come true.' (Jessica Tremp).

Although quite young, Jessica Tremp sure has made a name for herself. Born in 1981, she grew up in Switzerland before moving to Melbourne, Australia at the age of 18. Having attended very few photography classes, Jessica is primarily a self-taught photographer. Her talent and recognition stem from a string of awards and well received exhibitions and publications. 

Her style of photography is one that embraces natural light, which 'she feels gives her the freedom to shoot more spontaneously and organically... She focuses on relationships between self and space or humans and animals. She tries to blur the boundaries not only between species, but also between the beautiful and the eerie, comfort and fear, submission and dominance, finding moments of hope, connection and trust in a nature that seems to slip through your fingers.'  

To view more of her work or find out more about this young lass, head to her website and prepare to be captivated.... (I've already set one of her images to display on my desktop)!

A statement about her work:

'These series of portraits are ones of comfort and fear, loneliness and connection, submission and dominance in a world of ambiguous narratives, leaving behind a kind of emotional authenticity rather than a literal accuracy and finding moments of hope and trust in the unusual.'