ALICIA FRETTER IS A FREELANCE PHOTOGRAPHER, FILMMAKER, AND CREATIVE DIRECTOR BASED IN MANCHESTER, UK. SHE IS CURRENTLY COMPLETING HER BATCHERLOR'S DEGREE IN DRAMA AND CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE, AND THROUGH THIS, FOUND THAT HER PASSION LIES WITH VISUAL STORYTELLING AND DOCUMENTING HUMAN CONNECTION, RELATIONSHIPS, AND IDENTITY. SHE OFTEN USES THE BODY, GESTURE, AND MOVEMENT AS A TOOL FOR THE EXPLORATION OF EMOTION AND THE WAY WE BEHAVE IN THE WORLD. A LOT OF HER WORK IS INSPIRED BY AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL, WHICH SHE THEN USES TO COMMENT UPON THE WIDER WORLD, INFLUENCED BY 1990s GRUNGE MOVEMENTS, NATURE, EXPERIMENTALISM, AND CONTEMPORARY ART THEORY. 

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SHE BEGAN BUILDING HER PORTFOLIO IN LATE 2019, AND BY MID 2021, WAS PHOTOGRAPHING COMMISSIONED CONTENT FOR MAGAZINES SUCH AS VERICANE, AND CHAPTER Z, AS WELL AS BEING PUBLISHED WITH EVE, SOMETHING DIFFERENT, AND UGLY STYLIST MAGAZINE. SHE HAS SELF-PRODUCED TWO PHOTOGRAPHY AND ART PUBLICATIONS, THAT WERE BOTH SOLD NATIONWIDE AND MADE INTERNATIONAL CONNECTIONS: 'LADIES LADIES LADIES' (2021) AND 'CARTLE BLANCHE' (2021). UPCOMING WORK INCLUDES A VISUAL ARTS PERFORMANCE PIECE SURROUNDING THE IDEA OF SONDER AND THE BLURRED LINES BETWEEN SENSUALITY AND VIOLENCE (2022), AND AN INTIMATE SHORT FILM THAT PAINTS A POETIC PICTURE OF THE BEAUTY AND PAIN OF MOTHERHOOD, USING MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN IN MANCHESTER (2022).