Thinna Aniella Michelsen
“I don’t capture moments, I capture ideas that get to be moments.”
   — Thinna Aniella Michelsen
STORYTELLING
I see patterns, systems, connections, repetitions – and I tell stories.
I think in metaphors, observe behavior, and allow myself to get lost.
Photography – especially the portrait – has always been my focal point in daily life. The story the body tells.
I’m fascinated by shapes, rhythms, surreal exaggeration, and the psychology behind human movement.
By how algorithms arise when data repeats itself.
By how perspective can bend both time and perception.
We can’t live without stories. They bind us together.
Want to hear the story of NA:DI:A?
She emerged during a time of silent inner pressure.
A photographic piece, born from a conversation with the invisible.
Images formed from landscapes, models, dresses, clouds, and sky.
The texts appeared like downloads from above.
Later, they were recorded with musical collaboration.
Three people gave her life. But NA:DI:A lives her own.
She is both medium and message.
A transition. An algorithm in motion.
Click the image. And listen.
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The Story about NA:DI:A
“She emerged from the shadows, carried her stories forward – and rose.”
She of the Bones
She of the Wild
She of the Scarecrow
She of the Shadows
🇬🇧 Artist StatementÂ
I work at the intersection of photography, performance, and storytelling – where images are not merely images, but visual metaphors.
My works revolve around the unspoken, the hidden, and the human.
They often emerge from a retelling – of a myth, a film, a memory, or a provocation – and become a new image with its own rhythm and layers.
I am drawn to the psyche, to what we carry within us: shadows, doubt, longing, and moments of hope.
But also to what we carry as women – through the body, through history, through generations.
My images and stories trace threads back to the primal woman, to feminine wisdom, and to the collective memory of suppression, adaptation, and survival.
It is about female liberation.
About feeling what was forgotten.
Listening to the repetition of the echo.
About taking up space where once there was silence.
Poetry and photography are deeply intertwined in my work.
The text is not an explanation – but an added layer.
An echo. A rhythm. An opening.
Sometimes I write first. Other times, the words come afterward.
The image never stands alone.