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Photography is not about chasing moments.
It’s about noticing them.

Photography is not about chasing moments.
It’s about noticing them.

since

20  -  18

Pause. Observe. Luminate.

Lumen is a photography studio built on patience, intuition, and light, the kind that reveals feeling, texture, and truth. From quiet details to fleeting gestures, every image is crafted with intention, restraint, and respect for the story unfolding.

To capture a moment fully is to honor its existence.

Seeing deeply, the world unfolds in subtle, fleeting perfection.

It's my job to capture that in it's most beautiful form

This is photography for people who value emotion over perfection — and presence over performance.

_ Laurel

featured in

Various months 2003- 2010

New York Times

June 2020

Martha Stewart Living

2020, 2021 2024, 2025

Saveur

Various months 2005- 2025

Bon Apetit

Various months 2003- 2023

Washington Post

Meet Laurel

I'm determined to convey the deepest most beautiful part of anything that passes in front of my lens. It's all perspective and if we make the subject the hero, we make it have it's most beautiful moment... it can live in beauty forever more. 

_ Laurel

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