SHOTS 09 STUDENT EXHIBIT

Thursday, September 02, 2010

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Photographer Manuel Llaneras was born in Havana, Cuba, and immigrated to the U.S. in 1969. He has used his unique photography style for many years to document life at home and away. He currently resides in Atlanta, GA. As a professional wedding photographer he works in the documentary photography tradition, and considers his wedding photography an extension of his personal documentary work.

Manuel has worked on several personal photo documentary projects including his ongoing work in Cuba, which is a personal reflection of his experience in the country as both insider and outsider. His documentary photography has been widely exhibited at galleries and museums, such as the Southeast Museum of Photography, MOCA GA, and City Gallery East.

More about Manuel: http://mlphotography.com/ and http://mlphotography.com/documentary/

Photographer Laura Noel is a highly accomplished photographer based in Atlanta. Over the course of a wide-ranging career, Laura’s personal work has focused on the state of individuality in modern America. From her early street work in the Nineties, which chronicled strangers interacting with the suburban landscape of signage, big box architecture, and interstate highways, to her current work, a portrait series on smokers; Noel’s work has explored how people maintain their uniqueness in an increasingly homogeneous world.

Laura is an MFA graduate of the University of Georgia. In addition to numerous solo and group shows, her work is in the collections of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, MOCA GA, Robert Yellowlees Collection, King and Spaulding, Gregg Museum of Art and Design in Raleigh and many more.

Noel lives in Atlanta with her six year old son.

More about Laura: http://www.lauranoel.com/