Artist Statement:

My images - too selective to be a documentary in the normal sense - are visual manifestations of the life around me. My life and my photographs, both often ironic, sometimes funny, at times raw and every so often nostalgic, interact and influence each other.

Life pushes us to deal with feelings and situations, wanted or unwanted and so I shoot life with everything that life involves: happiness, loneliness, boredom, passion, frustration, love, sex, sadness, joy and death. It's a coexistence of ordinary duties and special moments.

I didn't want to limit my options to a couple of topics. I wanted to broaden the subject matter: life with everything that life involves. No censorship and no limits.
Loneliness, happiness, boredom, frustration, love, death, sex, tranquility, sadness...
Feelings and situations that life pushes us to deal with, wanted or unwanted,
In this way the realistic and the abstract can cohabit.
It's a coexistence of ordinary duties and special moments.

I work mainly in color, using different techniques: digital images, disposable cameras, computer colorized black and white negatives, videos, polaroids, vintage family prints, scans and personal objects, among others.
Some of them are snapshots while others are heavily staged and retouched.
The way I feel determines which method I use, and that decision defines the way I percept my surroundings. I like to use my instinct.

They are usually shown in a mixed up manner; they don't need a thematic or harmonic way of display, because they are about life and life changes usually come when you don't expect them, in a shocking and unpredictable way (at least in my life).
I usually show them in groups or in pairs, juxtaposing images with very different content and feelings.

Ana Nieto

BFA Photography, School of Visual Arts , New York