Statement

My work explores the complex relationships of humans and nature from an ecocentric point of view. It is often driven by concerns with climate change and environmental degradation.

Focusing on alternative and experimental photographic processes, I continually seek to evolve my practice by using sustainable materials and minimizing waste.

My small scale pieces evoke the dichotomies of beauty and darkness, power and fragility, eternity and transience within a warming world.

Lauren seated at desk looking over left shoulder

Four cyanotypes hanging on clothes line with view of city and sunset in the ackground.

Bio

Lauren Fiasconaro (b. 1992, Ellicott City, MD) is a visual artist working primarily in experimental and alternative photographic processes. She often creates work on her rooftop in Philadelphia, PA using plant matter and negatives. Her home studio is powered by a mix of solar, wind and low impact hydro energy.

Lauren graduated from Pratt Institute with a BFA in Photography and minors in Sustainable Studies and Art History, and has since exhibited domestically as well as online. In 2022, she left her seven year career as a project manager to pursue her artistic practice.

In 2024, she was awarded an Environmental Art Activism grant from the Puffin Foundation for a new project,“Plant Based Portraits”.

Lauren’s work spans unique individual pieces as well as editioned prints and is held in multiple private collections in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Colorado.