Laura Heyman

My recent photographic work uses the studio portrait to explore embedded hierarchies between photographers, subjects and viewers.  Performance is of course inherent to the medium of photography; any individual posing for a portrait arranges and edits not just their appearance, but their persona.

I have a deep curiosity about the performances taking place on both sides of the camera, the ways power can shift between the photographer and the photographed and whether the image resulting from this exchange is more a representation of one or the other.