Contact:
Email - laura@yumi.eu
Instagram - @lauramchen
For print sales, exhibitions or general questions, feel free to contact me directly.
All images on this site are available as signed prints. Inquire for prices and editions.
About:
Laura Chen is a Dutch photographer, collage artist and writer.
Her practice is highly intuitive, experimental and playful. Within her work, research, implementation and intervention are closely intertwined. She often employs a mixed-media approach, combining image, text and analogue photomontage techniques.
She is drawn to the obscurities and idiosyncrasies of mundane life, notions of impermanence, and a connection with the subconscious. Be it objects, places or people situated on the fringes of society — her images are tranquil observations of traces and rituals that often go unnoticed, are ignored or forgotten.
Other recurring interests include: (science) fiction, surrealism, dreams, nostalgia, hauntology, memory, linguistics, genealogy, mythology, synchronicity and serendipity.
Selected Highlights:
Peckham 24 Festival (2024), Athens Photo Festival (2024), Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation (2023), PhMuseum Women Photographers Grant Shortlist (2023), Revela't Festival (2023), OD Photo Prize (2023), Foam Talent (2022), LensCulture Summer Open Award Winner (2022), Rabo Photographic Portrait Talent Prize Winner by the Dutch National Portrait Gallery (2022), Palm* Photo Prize Finalist (2022) and Prix Virginia Finalist (2022).
Collections:
Rabo Art Collection, Rabobank, Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague, The Netherlands.
Selected Publications:
Photo London, PhMuseum, British Journal of Photography, Fotografiska, Source, PHROOM, Fisheye Magazine, The Eyes Journal, Lomography Magazine, Aesthetica Magazine, Royal Photographic Society, Canon, Life Framer, The Eye of Photography, PF Magazine, amongst others.
Editorial & Commercial Clients:
de Volkskrant, British Journal of Photography, Refinery29, Photomonitor, GUP Magazine, Flow Magazine, Hard//Hoofd, De Optimist, Discarded Magazine, Mirrored Society.
Education:
2017-2020 BA Photography - Birmingham City University.
2020-2022 MA Photography Arts - University of Westminster London.
2021 - Global Photographies Network Photobook Production & Publishing Programme by Ana Casas Broda / Hydra + Fotografia, Mexico City.