CH3L3™

About me:

...CH3L3/Codename C.H.E.L.E is a South-West (UK based) Freelance Commercial Photographer, born from an Advertising/Editorial bkground, recently expanding business beyond the UK borders & always under completion of new studies .CH3L3 is unique in the way that she shows a talent to capture her visions from a uniquely intimate perspective. Recent projects have brought a progressive exploration into the music industry, both in individual comissions and event/artist press editorials....working alongside such artists as DBridge, Future Thinkin', Cybass and more recently Urban Chemistry Recordings/Fusion.



All art contained in this gallery is © Chele Holt and housed under Creative Commons license. No piece, in full or in part, may be used by anyone regardless of monetary gain without expressed written permission from the artist. Contact the artist in regards to buying rights of a piece for CD, EP/LP, book cover, flyer, or any other commissions.

What you will see on this site does not even being to scratch the surface of all the images and styles of photography I have shot over the years. This is a collection of what I consider to be my best location & studio work, and offers you a view of the look and style of my Photography. I am constantly adding and updating pictures, please stop by regularly and check out all that is new.

Happy to open invite Commissions once again.. If you would like to discuss any future projects, please drop me send me an email to Odessa212@gmail.com ~ for serious business only. Also please check out http://www.virb.com/codenamechele for a slightly more in-depth bio & further work.





My age is irrelevant, my hair color changes, and I'm constantly trying to find my forward momentum. I'm a photographer and lover of art. I am compelled to create. I've just learned how fragile I really am, and that I need to protect me, for the easiest way to get destroyed is to do it yourself or resign your will. A passion is food, no matter how much I try to deny it. I've also begun to understand these very wise words: "The only person that you can HOPE to control is you." I've been poor, and ate bread for a week to get by. I've been middle class and there are too many rules there. I've been upper class and am terrified of that. I think that even if I won the lottery tomorrow, I'd still not want too much. Having things changes people. In fact, I'm quite sure that I own too much crap right now as it is. I really hate dishes and laundry, but that's only because I own too many dishes and clothes I think. I have allergies. I was a competitive rower, placed second on GB trials. I think I'm afraid of success some days. On the others I simply hate failure. If I had to pick a Disney princess, it would be Belle. She loves to read and write and sees people for the things that they wish to be loved for. My hands hurt a lot, I think I have arthritis. Ummm... I had an action man as a kid, jelly shoes and bracelets, a Rainbow Brite Sprite. I love simplicity. My favorite color is Red. I've come to realise that self discovery is an everyday event. I can play the piano. I'd rather not be indecisive. I still love Paddington Bear and my Paddington Bear money box. I can write and re-write budgets. I was a business manager for a good decade or so. I don't think ignorance will ever be bliss, and that common sense is a taught behavior. I am a technical FReAk! Also, I have the most amazing friends, and have FINALLY connected with my long lost soul mate. (It really is tough finding one another from one life to the next...) All that I have ever wanted, to be happy and true to myself, is now coming completely to fruition. I live for my family, and I photograph and write for me. Not to be understated though, is my need and lust for music. I believe that for a soul to be at peace, music absolutely must exist... Have I mentioned my love for my family? lol. Really, dreams DO come true. I'm just me, yep, pretty much, just me.

What you bring forth out of yourself from the inside will save you. What you do not bring forth out of yourself from the inside will destroy you.

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

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"To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget." - Arundhati Roy.

* * "When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence." - Ansel Adams

* * The enemy of photography is the convention, the fixed rules of 'how to do'. The salvation of photography comes from the experiment." -Anonymous

* * "You become things, you become an atmosphere, and if you become it, which means you incorporate it within you, you can also give it back. You can put this feeling into a picture. A painter can do it. And a musician can do it and I think a photographer can do that too, and that I would call dreaming with open eyes." - Ernst Haas