Michelle Pitiris
Michelle Pitiris is an Australian photographer and director drawn to images that sit somewhere between beauty and unease. Her work often explores identity, transformation, and the feeling of being slightly out of place, using sculptural styling, texture, and bold visual contrasts to build surreal, emotionally charged scenes.
Working across fine art, fashion, and music visuals, she brings a cinematic eye and strong sense of atmosphere to everything she creates. Michelle is interested in the in-between — where softness meets strength, where something familiar turns strange, and where the body becomes a site of storytelling rather than just appearance.
Soft Mutation 005
Archival Inkjet Print, 2022.
53.9 × 42 cm
$750 unframed
Soft Mutation 008
Archival Inkjet Print, 2022.
53.9 × 42 cm
$750 unframed
Soft Mutation 009
Archival Inkjet Print, 2022.
53.9 × 42 cm
$750 unframed
I’m drawn to figures that feel slightly out of place — not wrong, just not fully anchored. In this series, the body sits somewhere between human, plant, and object. The textures wrap and extend, as if the subject is still forming, still negotiating where they belong. For me, anomaly isn’t about standing out loudly. It’s the quieter feeling of existing between states — visible, present, but never entirely settled.