Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about how photographs function. What are we doing when we take a picture of someone? What does it mean to represent human forms visually, and how does that affect us? A photograph takes something that is mutable, changing, abstract—physical appearance—and codifies it, placing it in a value system of visual ideas and ideals. In these photos I tried to separate my subjects from that visual value system, to see human forms in a different way. I used collage, drawing, paint, and glitter to create an abstract mosaic world for them to live in—a world of confusion and possibility. It’s my hope that these photos will help me encounter and begin to understand a new way of seeing and living in a world I feel passionate about.
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Well. This is trippy.
this is so perfect omg.
aww, I love these. Especially #9 for some reason :)
THESE ARE SO AWESOME. Really, like, how dreams look like. <3
I love all of them (especially the second one) they are incredibly gorgeous
This is so so so so rad! It’s one of the most innovative/creative collections I’ve ever seen! The colors and art and GLITTER are PERFECT! LAURA RULES OK GUYS
i find something about this slightly frightening
simply brilliant! One of my favorite eye candys yet! :)
favorite rookie photoset
these are glorious!
wait everyone doesn’t see the world like this?
These kinds of photos are rad! You can almost feel the emotional depth in them, and tell that they aren’t just some ‘trippy photos’. They have substance and feelings, I love them!
#9 is absolutely perfect!! I want to live here!!!
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I can’t chose a favorite one.
EVERYTHING IS SO PERFECT
I CAN’T
SUPREME.
these are really really lovely, but i dont think a photograph is necessarily a set and codified thing, i think a photograph can be just as abstract and changeable as a painting, especially when photographers play on the notion that people believe a photograph to accurately document objective truth. looking at surrealist photographers who were the first to play with that idea, they create really realistic pictures that actually make no sense when analysed or are not all they seem – their way of saying the world doesn’t make sense and just as when a person sees, they see something different from what everyone else sees; when a person looks through a camera they capture their vision not the truth. but i like what you’ve done, its you’re vision of the world and you’ve let us see that, i just believe it can be done with glitter and without xx
i agree with you, i think often photographs are seen as “the truth” or as “reality” and for me, putting paint and glitter on a photograph makes it more obvious that a photograph is someone’s interpretation of reality… not saying photographs w/out glitter are more like reality, i just try to assert the idea that photographs are something separate from what they are of in a more obvious way i think.
Lauren! These are so pretty and cool! My favourite is #10, but I love them all!
Gorgeous!
Best comment ever.
GLOOOOOOW ON.
That was frightening and fascinating at the same time.
beautiful !
these are so great!
I love the colors in this! It’s so beautiful! :)
these are nice :)
okay i am seriously freaked out! this morning i watched ghost world for the first time and then i saw a ton of ghost world stuff randomly on tumblr. then i listened to the day the world turned day glo for the first time this afternoon and now I see this! WHAT THE HECK UNIVERSE?!
A little bit scared of the colors, but I still wish the world looked like that…
These are so fresh, Lauren!
Your exploration into the form of photography and reality reminded me how much I loved learning about the birth of photography in my AP art history class and learning about the way it informed a change in styles / the meaning or purpose of painting (impressionism, post impressionism, cubism, surrealism, etc). It seems like this set makes a cool connection to that transformation in the arts.
I love this! Destroying any and all lines between art, fashion, and craft.
I thought these were real people. Very deceptive.
xx Domenic
I think these photos are… normal. I am sorry but I haven’t enjoyed this very much.
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I love how surreal these are – while still retaining the specialness that photographs hold. Amazing work :D :D
these are incredible wow
Ugh so beautiful and lovely Lauren
So trippy! Feel like I’m looking at a still of someone’s brain that’s high on mushrooms or something.
Pictures like this are so strange, because they wouldn’t work if there was no photograph behind it although you can barely see it! Love it though!!
trippy! beautiful! fun <3
so pretty, definitely one of my faves photo albums on rookie!
I love this.
so glittery and awesome!!!
these are absolutely fantastic! they sort of remind me of animal collective for some reason (that’s a good thing!)
Wow. I am in awe of these photos. I don’t know what to say. Stunning. Unbelievable. Breathtaking. W O W.
One of my favorite Rookie photosets ever and that’s saying a lot.
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