Who is she?

Mary Ellen-Bartley is a photographer who mainly focuses on taking photos of books. They’re always displayed in a simple way and a lot of people say that her work celebrates books.

These are some of my favourite images by her:

In 2020, Covid-19 hit she was in Italy and quickly flew back home. While she was isolating she decided to use 7 objects from in her home and take pictures of them for 30 days, changing the position each day.

Here are some examples of the images that she took

In this image she uses her roll of paper and backlighting to make a silhouette of the 6 other objects that she used.

In this image she uses the book to make a shadow affect, covering most of her objects from the light. These images are really good examples of how she changed things every day.

This is an image of one of Mary Ellen Bartley’s exhibitions, ‘Installations’. It very much keeps to the theme of using books in her images and all the colours are quite vibrant, another common thing in her work. I really like how she has presented her work at this exhibition as there isn’t too much going on.