Laura Elizabeth Hinely

Bamboo Forest//Japan

laurahinely — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:15:49 +0000

From my first day in Japan, and one of my favorite places from my trip in April.

Some film//Part 5

laurahinely — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:41:06 +0000

This is my friend Kim. We worked together last year at the magazine and are bonded for life (BFL?)…it feels like we’ve been friends for 20 years. We like to talk about photography. This is from our two or three hour picnic lunch where at one point I said: “Sometimes I don’t know which camera to take a picture with…my dSLR or my phone…discuss.” She’s such a gem and she looks like a rockstar here.

Some film//Part 4//California

laurahinely — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:20:43 +0000

I think these two are self-explanatory. I was surprised at my delight at seeing this iconic sign when a friend (hi Kate!) took me to a great viewing spot earlier this year. I didn’t think I really cared about it, but it did feel very California. This will be my 4th summer in a row spent in the LA area…it’s weirdly a second home to me now.

Some film//Part 3

laurahinely — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 17:36:50 +0000

Some more pictures from this recent roll of film.

Some film//Part 2

laurahinely — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 14:22:16 +0000

From one of my trips to Nashville. Eating tacos in truckbeds, hikes, coffee shops, etc.

Some film//Part 1

laurahinely — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 22:52:11 +0000

I’m cracking myself up with my creative forms of procrastination as I head into the final countdown for both my show and for my thesis (rough draft due this month!). The closer I get, the crazier my procrastination becomes. Example: I recently purchased a month-long barre class deal which I started yesterday. I am now choosing workout out over working on grad school. Anyway, in some ways it has contributed to completing some long put-off projects. Got some film developed. This was a roll I had been working on from January until May. I’ll be posting these over the next week. First up, some pictures of my cousin’s kitchen.

Just a curtain. (From South Korea)

laurahinely — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 18:26:15 +0000

The very last shot from my 3 week Asia trip….friend’s house in South Korea. Typical Laura fashion…I don’t know where to start with sharing some images from this trip, so I start at the very end.

LYDIA//PART 2

laurahinely — Thu, 30 May 2013 14:09:25 +0000

See here for part one of this shoot. The book was Lydia’s idea. Locations included: my parent’s backyard, a parking garage, and my former landlord/current friend’s front porch. She’s seriously the cutest.

LYDIA//9 YEARS OLD//FACES//PART 1

laurahinely — Wed, 29 May 2013 14:58:03 +0000

A few months ago I took some pictures of my niece to celebrate the fact that she was nine years old. She’s the oldest of six (soon to be seven) nieces and nephews and is such a great older sister and cousin and is super mature and compassionate–I love hanging out with her. We spent a couple of hours, just the two of us, one afternoon. We took a lot of pictures I really like, and I’m going to show more…but when I was editing and came to these portraits…they kind of stopped me. She looks so much older than nine years old. And sometimes I think we (photographers) get distracted by shiny sparkly things (gear, props, photoshop, etc etc) and I’m not saying any of that is inherently wrong to use, but it can certainly be distracting. I feel like these are all about her and not at all about me. More to come.

SAVE THE DATE//JULY 21, 2013//Azusa, California

laurahinely — Tue, 21 May 2013 15:16:55 +0000

I just placed the final order yesterday of my all the pieces for my solo graduate show. I’ve settled on the title for the show and am super happy with it (“HOME SICK”). It fits LIKE A GLOVE. There will be over 30 never-before-seen (unless you happen to be one of my professors or one of the students in my cohort…then you have probably seen my work and/or critiqued it) photographs that make up a body of work I have been making for three years. A few years ago I spent a summer sort of living out of my car for 2 months (staying with friends) while I drove up and down the west coast and thinking about what the idea of “home” meant to me. Those thoughts were a springboard for this show, although the imagery in this show is about how I experience one or two specific homes.

Now I have no excuse to not write and write and write my thesis (which is getting better day by day but is still an embarrassing unorganized mess at this moment).

The opening reception for this show will be at 6:00 PM-ish (bonus: three other graduating artists will have their opening show receptions the same night so I’m not sure what time mine will be precisely) at the Robert Bullock Gallery at APU on July 21.