Ming started working as a photographer in 1987. She began by taking photos of Punk & Indie bands, for local record labels to use for publicity and record sleeves. In 1989 she set up the photographic studio ‘Poseurs’ on Ladypool Road in Birmingham, specialising in hand tinted and black and white portraiture.
She later moved her studio to the Custard Factory and branched out creatively into montage, toning, image transfers and building sets for photographic shoots. These techniques were used to produce work for record companies and book publishers.
Working in this way led Ming to digital photography. Photoshop and other digital media provided the perfect vehicle for the work that she is creating today. Ming now produces images for companies, museums, art galleries and councils across the country. She also teaches digital photography and Photoshop skills.
Ming’s expertise in portraiture and attention to detail, through digital manipulation, have produced strong and vibrant images. Ming has a humorous and compassionate eye and her pictures demonstrate her capacity to relate to people and what is important to them.
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Ming de Nasty, born Shropshire, England 1962. Is a self taught photographer living and working from Birmingham. She has undertaken commissions for many musicians, record labels, theatre and dance companies. As well as for Birmingham City Council, Severn Trent Water, The pUBLIC & NHS Trusts. She also runs workshops in photography & digital imagining in schools and community groups.
She has shown in many group shows: Something Old Something New. Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery. Singularity. Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham Lesbian Connexon/s. Artoteek Oost. Amsterdam touring to University Cekoa, Zagreb, Croatia. Cancerjev dom Cultural Centre, Ljubljana, Slovenia. St. Pietersabdij Ghent, Belgium. Boxer. Walsall Museum & Art Gallery touring to Oldham Art Gallery & Aspex Gallery Portsmouth. C.C.A. & Castle Milk Gallery. Glasgow. Manipulative Women. The Custard Factory, Birmingham. Bonnington Gallery, Nottingham & Focal Point. Southend-on-Sea
And solo shows: Autogirls. Wolverhampton Lighthouse & Media Centre Black Leather Jacket. Walsall Leather Centre Talking Pigeons. Walsall Museum & Art Gallery
She has had work published in: CAN WE COME BACK? Ikon Gallery & Creative Partnerships projects 2002-04 TO BE CONTINUED> Artists interventions into the public realm. Edited by Deborah Smith & Kate Fowle.2003 THE NEW ART GALLERY WALSALL. Published by BT Batsford 2002 PROFIFOTO.
German photography magazine. Interview 2000 COMING TO LIGHT. Birmingham’s Photographic Collection. Book to accompany exhibition.1998 SHARP VOICES STILL LIVES. Birmingham Photography in the1980s. Published by Cornerhouse 1990.
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