Lisa Ray

Tell us a little bit about you?
I am a fine art and portrait photographer based in Melbourne.

With a commercial background in photography and image making, my recent focus has been on exhibiting my large scale fine art floral works at the Victorian Pride Centre.

What is your favourite drink?
Currently Clove and Cinnamon Tea. Nature offers us healing in many ways.

What inspired you take up photography?
I seemed to have a passion for photography from a young age. Always taking the instamatic camera and flash bulbs with me on school trips.

I loved painting and drawing, but for me there was something really special about seeing something, feeling something, and photographing it in a way

that somehow preserves the energy of the moment, or the subject. I take this approach with my portrait photography too, photographing not only what I see, but what I feel.

What advice would you give other artists/creatives starting out?

Find your inspiration from within. From the quiet place of knowing. That's your truth. Only you can create from this place. It is aspiration that you find outside of yourself.

Where can we find you?
My fine art prints are available for purchase at www.lisaray.com.au, or follow me on instagram at @lisarayfineheart.