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“The images are compositions of photos superimposed over painted backgrounds, then finished off with digital alterations.”

Quote by Loretta Lux

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Loretta Lux is a celebrated German photographer, recognized for her evocative and often unsettling portraits of children. Born in 1969, she has developed a signature style that captures the innocence and fragility of her subjects, often set against a surreal and dreamlike backdrop. Lux's work has been widely exhibited and has received critical acclaim for its emotional depth and technical skill. more

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“Usually I work with a digital camera and compose my works digitally or give them a finish on the computer, in order to make them meet my ideas perfectly.”

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“My pictures are not really about the children that I photograph. They're more like actors in a film. I think you can always recognize the children, but they are alienated from their real appearance and become more like metaphors.”

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“I use different media, but I still think as a painter. I organize my forms and colors on a screen like a painter does on a canvas.”

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“Childhood has been idealised as a lost garden paradise to which we can never return. We are excluded from this world of carelessness, innocence and unity. But the imaginary kingdom is nothing more than a projection of adult ideas and concerns onto the image, an expression of our own yearnings. By photographing children alone, divorced from any social setting, I allow them to exist on their own...I am exploring the equivocal connection between self and world.”

“I still think as a painter - especially in terms of structuring a picture... I carefully choose the models, costumes, requisites, and backdrops of my photographs.”

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“The sign at the entrance to my gym locker room says, no cell phones please, cell phones are cameras. They are not. A camera is a Nikon or a Leica or Rolleiflex, and when you strike someone with one, they know they have been hit with something substantial.”

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“I feel totally responsible for what I see. I feel totally responsible for what I photograph.”

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“[The people who run things] are so successful in the way they do it now. They could buy me off with a couple of vintage prints, they could have you do an ad, or give you a ribbon... In capitalist countries they reward artists because we're ineffectual.”

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“The use of the camera has always been for me a tool of investigation, a reason to travel, to not mind my own business, and often to get into trouble.”

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“As a child I had been so afraid of so many things, but as soon as I held a camera in my hand, I began to expose myself to the very things that were foreign to me and that I had always feared.”

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