Lisa Edi was born in Schärding, Upper Austria in 1989. She lives and works in Vienna as a photographer of all kinds of genres. Having studied fashion and sculpture before taking her Diploma in Photography at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in 2019, she now works across and through disciplines, to enrich her diverse photographic practice. Since 2017, Lisa Edi’s photographs have been featured in numerous exhibitions, magazines and fashion campaigns.
Lisa Edi’s work combines a strong sensibility for material with an intuition for generative encounters. Her images capture moments of intimate interaction between fabric, flesh, objects and light.
About AM SEE – words by Lisa Edi:
I was asked to do a photo series in some kind of road-story setting for a small Austrian magazine and their freedom-themed issue. I hadn’t had much time to plan a proper shooting and decided to capture something seemingly ordinary but as a new mum very much in the sense of freedom: I documented a day trip to a nearby lake with a bunch of friends. In the pictures there is no evidence of me taking a break from being a mum for a day but it still seems relevant to address it.
It is the confession and the permission to myself that sometimes I need a break from all the weight of motherhood and that I dare to talk about missing those spontaneous, carefree trips – that’s the freedom and the story of those images.
