Eleanor Bennett’s photography obscures and focuses. Her photographs offer the viewer little context, but this is what makes them so striking. Bennett offers us the privilege of being able to look at something and appreciate it for its intrinsic characteristics, without having our impression shaped by contextual expectations. That focus, along with intense details, allows the viewer to appreciate the aesthetics of subjects that they might not even be able to readily identify.
Eleanor Leonne Bennett is a 15 year old photographer and artist who has won contests with National Geographic, The Woodland Trust, The World Photography Organisation, Winstons Wish, Papworth Trust, Mencap, Big Issue, Wrexham Science, Fennel and Fern and Nature’s Best Photography. She is the only visual artist published in the Taj Mahal Review June 2011. She is the youngest artist to be displayed in Charnwood Art’s Vision 09 Exhibition (2009) and New Mill’s Artlounge Dark Colours Exhibition (2011) as well as the youngest to be published in Grey Sparrow Press (2011). She was also the featured artist in Able Muse (2011).