Fine Art 3rd place winner

"Memento mori, memento vivere." An homage to beauty and its fickle, fleeting nature. A digital collage work using old master's still life paintings, juxtaposing the new with the old and the 2-dimensionality of the paintings with the perceived 3-dimensionality of photography, in an attempt to make it both look as if it's part of the painting, but like it could also be made up of cut-outs as collages are. Digital mixed media, traditional meets contemporary.

Ashley Marié is a Cape Town based fine art, beauty, fashion, and portrait photographer. Since obtaining her BA in Fine Art Photography in 2008 from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT, she has been working freelance as a photographer and retoucher. In recent years she has been moving away from fashion and lifestyle work and focusing more on her fine art and creative portraiture projects.