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Throughout the year 2020 and living through quarantine, I became very aware of the amount of waste that myself and others were producing. This heightened sense of awareness enabled me to take notice of the amount of waste that was being left out for pickup every week throughout my neighborhood, particularly on bulk trash day. This series began as a documentation of the abundance of strange items that were tossed out on the curb every week, which equally intrigued and disturbed me. (1/3)
The primary focus was to make a statement on the amount of waste we as a society are discarding, but as I continued to photograph these items every week, it became less about the quantity of the waste and much more about the stories that the contents were telling. (2/3)
Throughout the year 2020 and living through quarantine, I became very aware of the amount of waste that myself and others were producing. This heightened sense of awareness enabled me to take notice of the amount of waste that was being left out for pickup every week throughout my neighborhood, particularly on bulk trash day. This series began as a documentation of the abundance of strange items that were tossed out on the curb every week, which equally intrigued and disturbed me. (1/3)
Recollection
people places and things
This series of photographs visualizes the feelings of my own experience in self quarantine during 2020. Some days are dark while others shine more light. Days without breathing any fresh air. Days of staring at the sun only through the window. Days of sitting in the grass while making sure to stay a safe distance from anyone else trying to feel a sense of normalcy. Moments of stillness and uncertainty. Cooperation.
This series of photographs visualizes the feelings of my own experience in self quarantine during 2020. Some days are dark while others shine more light. Days without breathing any fresh air. Days of staring at the sun only through the window. Days of sitting in the grass while making sure to stay a safe distance from anyone else trying to feel a sense of normalcy. Moments of stillness and uncertainty. Cooperation.
cooperation
This series is comprised of eight prints which aim to visualize what missing someone you love can look like. Love is beautiful and love is hard, and distance adds an extra layer that makes it even harder. This work is based on my own personal experience of loving someone who is hundreds of miles away, intertwined with inspiration from the poem Morning by Frank O’hara. (1/2)
I wanted to create a sort of poem through photographs, utilizing different techniques of lighting to create a series of melancholy prints. A lot of the time in my relationship is spent trying to make the distance feel shorter but to create this series, I let myself miss her. (2/2)
Copy of "Morning" by Frank O'Hara
This series is comprised of eight prints which aim to visualize what missing someone you love can look like. Love is beautiful and love is hard, and distance adds an extra layer that makes it even harder. This work is based on my own personal experience of loving someone who is hundreds of miles away, intertwined with inspiration from the poem Morning by Frank O’hara. (1/2)
971 miles
Lauren Sopourn and Paris Valladares collaboratively worked on this series of diptychs titled "Far From". For this series they wanted to create a series of images that convey the feeling of distance. Each diptych contains one image from each respective photographer. Notably the photographers worked from a distance from each other during this series and photographed the same subject matter in their individual environments. (1/3)
Both artists are very familiar with the way that distance can elicit many emotions - sadness, hope, fear, longing, etc., which are the emotions they aimed to emphasize through this series as they are both in long distance relationships. The series revolves around the concepts of distance and longing without directly addressing the specifics of their individual partners. (2/3)
Lauren Sopourn and Paris Valladares collaboratively worked on this series of diptychs titled "Far From". For this series they wanted to create a series of images that convey the feeling of distance. Each diptych contains one image from each respective photographer. Notably the photographers worked from a distance from each other during this series and photographed the same subject matter in their individual environments. (1/3)
far from
(2017) This series is a response to the unfair treatment women receive in the media. My objective here was to bring attention to the double standards and gender stereotypes that are placed on women every day. With these portraits, I aimed to diminish these negative connotations, and have included the direct posts from social media which influenced me to make each photograph. (1/3)
The motivation to make this work came from the exhaustion of reading hateful comments about women every day, when nothing is being said about men doing the same things. No one cares if a man doesn't shave their legs, and no one should care if a woman doesn't shave hers, yet they do. It might be a small double standard but it plays into a much bigger picture. Every day women are told what to do with their bodies when it should be no one's choice but her own. (2/3)
(2017) This series is a response to the unfair treatment women receive in the media. My objective here was to bring attention to the double standards and gender stereotypes that are placed on women every day. With these portraits, I aimed to diminish these negative connotations, and have included the direct posts from social media which influenced me to make each photograph. (1/3)
more than words
Montego Bay, Jamaica
travel
when i was 12
Often times the bodies of queer women are hyper sexualized for the visual pleasure of others and depict a fantasy rather than reality. Up until August 2019, the google image algorithm for searching the word “lesbian” would only return with results of pornographic images. With the images in this series I wanted to show intimacy without contributing to the narrative that women in relationships with women only exist in that state. I
Often times the bodies of queer women are hyper sexualized for the visual pleasure of others and depict a fantasy rather than reality. Up until August 2019, the google image algorithm for searching the word “lesbian” would only return with results of pornographic images. With the images in this series I wanted to show intimacy without contributing to the narrative that women in relationships with women only exist in that state. I