My series combines photography with interviews in which couples who have been together for over fifty years talk about their love. The work captures the longevity of these relationships and the textures within them—the routines, conflicts, humor, and resilience that accumulate over decades.
The photographs themselves are often made within the spaces of the couples’ everyday lives—most frequently within their homes—grounding each image in a lived, personal environment rather than a staged setting. The viewer is invited not only to look at the couples, but to sense the history embedded in their shared gestures and environments. The interviews invite the viewer into the interior lives of the couples. The project creates a bridge between the seen and the spoken, transforming each story into a more multidimensional narrative.
The series aims to reveal the complexity behind enduring relationships, highlighting how love is remembered, articulated, and understood by those who have lived it the longest. In doing so, it offers insight into commitment, change, and time as experienced through partnership.
Artist Bios
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Lauren Fleishman
Lauren Fleishman is an American photographer based in London. She has also lived and worked in New York and Paris. Her work centers on themes of human connection, and she enjoys working on assignment, covering a wide range of stories for both editorial and commercial clients. She also teaches photography at the university level.
Organizations
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Photoville
Founded in 2011 in Brooklyn, NY, Photoville was built on the principles of addressing cultural equity and inclusion, which we are always striving for, by ensuring that the artists we exhibit are diverse in gender, class, and race.
In pursuit of its mission, Photoville produces an annual, city-wide open air photography festival in New York City, a wide range of free educational community initiatives, and a nationwide program of public art exhibitions.
By activating public spaces, amplifying visual storytellers, and creating unique and highly innovative exhibition and programming environments, we join the cause of nurturing a new lens of representation.
Through creative partnerships with festivals, city agencies, and other nonprofit organizations, Photoville offers visual storytellers, educators, and students financial support, mentorship, and promotional & production resources, on a range of exhibition opportunities.
For more information about Photoville visit, www.photoville.com
The Lovers
Featuring: Lauren Fleishman
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