I love these black and white photos by Lauren Semivan that mix girls and nature in collage-like compositions. Semivan earned her MFA at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. She is represented in NYC by Bonni Benrubi Gallery, where I bought my first photographs many years ago when I started collecting photography, and it was located in a little second floor space on a side street on the Upper East Side. (I just learned this minute in researching Semivan, that Bonni died last year; she was much too young.)
In her artist’s statement, Semivan says that her photography is informed by “the written word, painting, drawing, sculpture, and the raw material of human experience.” All images are made using an early 20th century 8×10″ view camera, and large format negatives are scanned and printed without digital manipulation.
July 1, 2013
Labyrinth, 2010
June 27, 2013
Clover #2
Ink, 2013
Low Tide, 2012
May, 2011
Mirror, 2010
Wind #2, 2012
Branches, 2011
Echo, 2013
Landscape with Alison, 2009
Observatory
Wishbones, 2011
Photos courtesy of Bonni Benrubi Gallery
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