Through the Garden of Childhood

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• Photographer
  Leslie Hall Brown, United States
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• Website
  http://www.lesliehallbrown.com/

“Through the Garden of Childhood” is a series of photomontages based on memories and dreams from childhood, about the feelings carried throughout life, which to this day influence how I see and experience the world. I am after a rawness and a sense of living in process. I want to give visual form to the pain, joy, losses, damages and all those vague remnants that are at my core, which direct and enliven my imagination. I strive for each image to provide an 'as if' experience of holding up a mirror and showing me some small parcel of the internal remains of what it was to be my child self.

I am working conceptually, creating a world that speaks to another era and that extends beyond the realm of the camera. I strive to make images, which blur the line of real and not real and possess an otherworldly quality that will transcend into the mythic. It is our world yet it is not. Every image tells a story, but the story is different for every viewer. They are images that begin with the hint of a story yet are ambiguous enough to allow for multiple scenarios. I aim for there to be a sensation of looking into a mythic world, where some may want to spin a tale while others are content with the visuals alone.

• Awards
  Leslie Hall Brown is a fine art photographer and psychotherapist from the USA. Leslie's photography is included in the 2020 book "Criticizing Photographs", included in the 2017 IPA Best of Show, awarded the PX3 Best New Talent Award in 2016, awarded first place by IPA in 2015 for her self-published Fine Art book, endowed with the Julia Margaret Cameron Award in 2014, was a finalist for the 2014 Clarence John Laughlin Award, received gold, silver, and bronze medals in the 2014 "Prix de la Photographie, Paris" (Px3) and received a 1st place in the 2013 International Photography Awards. Her work has been published in the 2020 edition of "Criticizing Photographs", print magazines and in various online photography magazines. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, with shows in the US, Germany, Mexico, Spain and Georgia.