Photos — LOLITA BRAYMAN

Photography Projects

Taking photos allows me to document how quickly the light changes color, from one moment to the next. It helps me notice the earth’s rotation around the sun as light hits objects, subjects in my periphery vision at varying angles. It teaches me how to grasp variation by standing still.

My work explores the permeable relationship between time and space and the stories our perceptions create despite what we actually see in our surroundings. I aim to provide a faithful view of my social communities and ever-changing environments in the hopes of unveiling new channels of connection. The photos attempt to tell stories about migration, collective memory, synchronicity, adaptation and survival in diverse ecosystems, and human kinship with the natural world.

I’m an analog photographer but this collection also contains digital work. I prefer shooting on 35mm film with FED-2 (ФЭД-2)—a Soviet rangefinder camera from the 1960s. I appreciate film photography’s imperfect textures of realism and the medium’s ability to portray a sincere, and often surprising, point of view. The light leaks you see are FED-2’s signature fireflies; they share their own version of the story.