Images from São Paulo is a collection of analogue photographs made during Laura’s first journey to South America. Encountering São Paulo as an outsider, she was struck by the city’s energy, and seemingly endless palette of colours. Yet, through black-and-white film, she sought to distil these impressions into a series of street photographs that focus on gesture, light, texture, and atmosphere. 

Upon returning home, Laura revisited the images in the darkroom. Using digital negatives produced from the original film negatives, she created contact prints, engaging in a second encounter with the city and the memories attached to it. As each image gradually emerged in the developer, the process became an act of reflection, allowing me to reconsider my experience of São Paulo from a distance and through the material language of analogue photography. 

The book brings together 20 images, hand bound using a traditional Japanese stab-binding technique. Through its sequencing and physical construction, Images from São Paulo reflects on photography as both a record of place and a means of revisiting memory.

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On the way home (2023-ongoing) is a diaristic photographic project that brings together analogue images from Laura’s everyday life. Made between Brittany, France, and Ireland, the series reflects on her evolving relationship with both places, exploring what it means to call somewhere home. 

Although Brittany and Ireland share strong cultural and geographical affinities — from rugged coastline and shifting weather to rural traditions and Celtic heritage — this sense of familiarity between them blurs the boundaries of belonging. As each place echoes the other, the question of where she belongs remains unresolved. 

Using different analogue cameras and film formats, the work embraces fragmentation and variation as part of this in-between experience. Photography becomes a way of navigating overlapping identities and tracing what it means to exist between two closely connected homes.

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On the way home is an diaristic project that presents analogue photographs of Laura’s daily life. Taken in various locations between Britanny, in France, and Ireland, this collection of images questions the artist’s notion of home.

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