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Surrealistic photographer

Laurie Simmons

Lying Book (Color), 1990

Underneath, 1996

Colour interior, 1987

Simmons is an American Artist, stages photographs with dolls and dummies, as well as costumed dancers as ‘living objects’, suffused and colored by an adult’s childhood memories, longings, and regrets. With a dreamlike quality of her work, it blends psychological, conceptual approaches to art making. On first glance her photographs looks normal and familiar, but she attempts to show the struggle over gender role and identity in an environment

Julia Fullerton-Batten

She is a photographer deals with awkwardness, by placing her subjects in a surrealistic situations and blowing them out of scale. Furthermore she plays with his strangeness by placing them in a situation from a really ordinary and everyday to tragic accidences. It seems like the characters in her work were living in a big miniature city.

Surrealistic artist

Daniela Edburg

She is an installation artist, textile artist, and photographer, who use knitting as a prop and a core element in her staged photographs, which exaggerate the texture and colour of the objects.  Her work is vibrant and humorous that attracts viewer to its short narration. Knitting, a compulsory action, is able to create a safe place or re-create a cushioned version of everything thing, even something was uncomfortable.