Louise (Lou) Stella Lauren (they/them) is a Greek-American queer artist located in Brooklyn, NY. They have focused on analog photography, both 35mm and medium format, for 10 years. Predominantly self-taught, in the last year Lou has sought to broaden their technical skillset with an emphasis in darkroom printing and studio lighting through a series of courses at the International Center of Photography.

Their work has recently been part of the Queer Continuum: Archival, Avante-Garde and Beyond. The series of work Lou presented was inspired by the lack of historical visibility surrounding queer sapphic romance and eroticism. In addition Lou’s work has been published by the online magazine Lesbians are Miracles, auctioned and sold for the Thessaloniki Queer Arts Festival in support of the Greek queer activist Zak Kostopoulos in 2020, and was featured at the Professional Women Photographer’s ‘My NYC’ group show in 2022.

Lou’s focus on portraiture and storytelling enables them to explore personal and human psychological themes, queer expression, divine sensuality, and identity via the abstraction of the human body. Their images are intimate, personal and tender. The aim of their artistic practice is to continue to conceptualise and materialize complex human experiences empowering viewers to project their own reality and desire onto the images.