Lara Young was born in 1997 in New Haven, CT, and spent their early childhood in their mother’s home city of Buenos Aires until 2001, when together they immigrated back to the United States. Lara became a first generation college graduate, receiving their BSVA in Media Studies and Photography from SUNY Purchase in 2020.
They work primarily with film and digital photography, their personal archive, alternative processes, and textiles, but their first medium was communicating with people. They showcase this talent in their images of strangers, now friends, that they met across America.
However, they struggled to connect to their family members and childhood, all in Argentina, due to physical and emotional distance. Their use of altered archival images and obscured visual subjects communicates that disconnect to their audience.
lara currently resides in buenos aires.