The Friend Whose Beauty Is From Elsewhere

• Photographer
  Lawrence Russ
• Photo Date
  2021

From a portfolio called "Marion under the Moon," in which the images are set in natural or simulated night-time and involved the use of numerous flash techniques and units, sometimes as many as ten strobes with almost as many different types of modifiers. Each image features the same woman, her face turned away or partly "veiled," manifesting her differing aspects, guises and mysteries. And not only hers, I hope, but virtually all women's (and men's, too, though men may be less ready to see it).

Lawrence Russ received a Master of the Fine Arts degree from the Writing Program of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he was one of two Honorary Fellows in Poetry. He published prose and poetry in many journals and anthologies, and was a First Runner-up for the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. His photographic work, to which he's been dedicated for the last 23 years, has been chosen in international competition for exhibition, publication or honors by galleries, museums, magazines, and centers in every region of the U.S., and in global awards competitions including this one.