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Loretta Lux

Loretta Lux (b. Dresden, East Germany, 1969) is a German fine art photographer who creates surreal portraits of young children. She currently lives in Monaco.

She graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts in Munich in the 1990s, and debuted at the Yossi Milo gallery, New York in 2004. Her computer-manipulated work has been immediately highly successful, and her prints are in the permanent collection of over 18 museums and institutions. Her work featured on the cover, and as an extensive album, in the Winter 2005 edition of the prestigious Portfolio magazine. In 2005 she won an Infinity Award in Art from the International Center of Photography in New York.

Her work - at once alluring and disturbing - is influenced by a variety of sources. Lux originally trained as a painter, and is influenced by painters such as Diego Velázquez, Agnolo di Cosimo and Phillip Otto Runge. She also owes a debt to the famous Victorian photographic portraitists of childhood such as Julia Margaret Cameron and Lewis Carroll.

Her work follows in a recent tradition of art's interest in portraying the strangeness of children and adolescents via photography; from the work of Sally Mann through to the staged and retouched work of Bernard Faucon and Rineke Dijkstra , among others.

Source: wikipedia