Transition Photography Series by Lauren Marsolier

In a world where photographs are taken and shared in an instant, Lauren Marsolier‘s images go through many stages and possibilities before finding their definitive form. Created from multiple photographs captured in a variety of locations, each composition is shaped slowly, over time, layer by layer, through trial and error. This approach allows the Los Angeles-based photographer to represent the world without showing a specific place, focusing instead on a mental experience.

Hers is a kind of perceptual photography, exploring what is sensed rather than the immediately visible. In a composite photograph, liberated from the single point of view of indexical representation, a new visual vocabulary can emerge. A subtle combination of multiple perspectives, lighting sources, and distances are used to produce disorientation in the viewer. The landscapes are ambivalent, familiar and yet not identifiable. The work probes our relationship to a globalising world, marked by the loss of its certainties and an overall sense of placelessness.

Marsolier currently lives and works in Los Angeles. In 2015 she was included in a panel discussion at London’s Tate Modern discussing contemporary landscape photography. Her work is included in the collections of institutions such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Centre for Creative Photography and the Phoenix Art Museum. Marsolier is the recipient of the 2013 Houston Center for Photography fellowship award, which included a solo exhibition of her work at the institution. In 2013, she also featured the London exhibition Landmark: The Fields of Photography, curated by William Ewing at the Somerset House. She was also part of the Humble Art Foundation 2012 selection of “31 Women in Art Photography” and was featured in the British Journal of Photography as one of 20 photographers to watch in 2013.