Agnese Strode is a Latvian artist. She lives and works in England. She works across photography, art direction and styling. She studied BA (Hons) Visual Communication at the University for the Creative Arts in England.
Her self-published photobook Body and Frame has 79 photographs. It is about the female gaze and one woman portraying another. The work received an Industry Recognition Award in Photography, selected by Ellen Nolan.
In her series Surrogate Flesh / The Grammar of Tension, she photographs everyday objects such as grapefruits, eggs, irons and black nylon. The grapefruit acts as a stand-in for the female body. The series led her to research spatial grammar for robotics and embodied AI.
