Lilli Waters
- Aug 11
- 1 min read
Lilli Waters usually appears in her own photographs. In many of them she lies in the river near where she was born, with fabric floating around her among water lilies and shells. She plans each shot carefully, and the results look a lot like old Dutch still-life paintings.
Water shows up in almost all of her work, and for her it means rebirth, memory, and renewal. She often includes pregnant women, as a sign of strength and protection. Her pictures are personal, drawing on the feminist ideas she got from her mother’s side of the family and on her background as a Thai-Australian woman. She puts women at the center of the landscape and tells the story from their point of view.
Based in Melbourne, Waters trained in photography in 2002 and has shown internationally since 2012, from FotoNostrum in Barcelona to the International Center of Photography in New York. She won the Julia Margaret Cameron Award in 2024, and her images have run in Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, and in the films Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed.
