Portable: How did you get your start taking photos?
Laura Makabresku: It all started in high school. I was writing a lot of poems then, but words started to be a tough substance for my imagination. For a long time I couldn’t find any good tools to express myself, until my Lad gave me a camera. I remember the first photo which I took – it was a portrait of my Lad. I remember our first walk to a garden on the back of cemetery, the time when I wanted to take a photo of every moment when we were together – something like intimate, girly photo dairy. Today, when I look at these photos, I smell fading apple trees. Everything is so bright and clear, like in a Proust novel.
Palmer Youd
A swimsuit display points out that bathers began the 20th century in neck-to-knee style for modesty, and ended the century with children often wearing knee-length wetsuits to keep out the sun. Thomson constantly changes exhibits and her ethos is that “there’s no point putting something out unless it’s saying something”.
April 26, 2013 | 3:35 pm