About

Lauren has been involved in photography, as an artist and a teacher, since 2011. Since 2014, she  has worked both internationally and in the US to help her students find their creative voice using photography as their medium. Lauren shoots both 35mm and medium format film, often relying on just one camera and one lens to explore the relationship between her visual experience and the written word. She grew up surrounded by the mountains of eastern Tennessee and has lived near the waters of both coasts. She now lives in Maine.

Books raised me. As an only child, books were the siblings that populated the winding roads of my earliest days. They were the brothers I roamed the fields with at sunrise, and the sisters who huddled alongside me with flashlights under blanket forts. The sentences I've read, fragments of songs I've loved, even snippets of poems, they all continue to be my every day companions. I now know that those words revealed to me the uncharted landscapes of our human connections, and I've come to understand that it's in the still, small details of our everyday lives that we reveal who we truly are. Those are the moments I want to illuminate through my lens.