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  Sidereal says:

  "Lauren's film work is strange and surprising, and a technical anchor. She exemplifies the extraordinarily expressive merit of the medium she has chosen, and she demonstrates a clear mastery of the process that brings it to us.
  
  In the muddy roiling flood of contemporary everyman photography, her thoughtful, beautiful works are superlative examples of considered composition. The tonal range of negative film has been rightfully worshiped, and Lauren employs its singular capability with striking effect using her own hands in the darkroom.
  
  In her photos, we are invited into a candid world just next door - a world of nakedness, a world that melts into itself, a world that stabs cruelly - and we are left somewhere between acceptance and stark wonder."

  17th March, 2008

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  ambient troutmask says:

  "I place no particular value on the means of creating art, but find that much that purports to be "art photography" to be silly. To me a camera is a just a means to capture, make stories and an excuse to be in wonderful inspiring places. But just occasionally I see a glimmer of true art in an image by some one else. That glimmer became a outpouring of light when I first saw Laurens wonderful work. A real talent.
  The fact that her portrait so closely resembles Patti Smith in no way influenced my immediate love for her! I am a besotted fan of the Rabbit and wish her well on her trip to wonderland."

  11th January, 2008

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  SethX9 says:

  "I am an atheist but I still recognize and value dearly those spiritual technologies that bring me out of my Self and allow communion with what I describe as "higher orders of consciousness". Lauren's art is just such a technology; she builds churches.
  
  In a comment on one of her many remarkable photographs I likened her to Diana Lucifera. I stand by that comparison. These images are a guide through a shadowland. Some may wish to deny this place, to ignore the details of its landscape, but denial is made more difficult under the light of Lauren's vision. I am thankful that she sustains herself in a liminal state, a dark Promethean mother bringing to the profane the knowledge that boundaries are illusory. This may not be welcome or comfortable for some but for me......for me I am thankful to Lauren for the Work she does. I feel I am less alone having seen these images."

  19th March, 2007

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  sol exposure says:

  "a thousand photos could be staring me in the face. thousands of seconds of time screaming, inviting me in for a closer look. Ms. Rabbit's photos just sit. patiently. not requiring attention.
  
  but everytime...everytime....i am mesmerized. quietly pleading for more."

  6th March, 2007

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  RossinaBossioB says:

  "Lauren Rabbit is a superb image creator. Art work full of queer objects-subjects and thoughtful suggestions. Above all, love the coherence of the images in this amazing gallery."

  11th December, 2006

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  Paul Grand says:

  " Visiting Lauren's photopool is like falling down the white rabbits hole through many different layers and landing in a kind of Georgian lighthouse that is her home, with its strange outsize checkerboard floors and austere walls. Fall deep enough and you'll hit the floor of her darkroom studio basement with its resident huge spider, but then, perhaps that's falling too far!
  Lauren's photographic world is her house and her house is the background subject for her surreal photography. She mostly shoots in the classic studio camera format and makes delicious contact prints from the negatives for us to see in the Flickr world. She's a gifted writer and has a razor sharp, deadpan wit, she's also ahead of her time and I can see great things coming her way very soon. I'm so happy to have
  fallen into her dark surreal world!"

  11th December, 2006

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  Gabriela Camerotti says:

  "Amazing photos, great dark atmosphere.
  Expressive, conceptual, moody, spooky and even dreamy.
  
  Everything looks different through her eyes and I'm glad she can photograph it and show us her world."

  31st October, 2006

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  rebeccamissing says:

  "How dare you look?
  
  How
  dare
  you
  look
  away?
  
  Like all great art, Lauren's work invites and challenges all at once."

  3rd October, 2006

Name:

lauren simonutti

Joined:

April 2006

Currently:

Baltimore, USA

I am:

Female and Single

Occupation:

photog-film, not digital; b&w not colour

Website:

Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago