Portfolio - Laura Barbieur Photography

It is truly an honor when someone allows me to take their portrait. It gives me a glimpse into their guarded self. Facets are shed. Many portrait sessions evolve over the hours as the subject becomes more comfortable with the camera, and characteristics emerge.
My camera has lead me on many amazing adventures. From the mountains near my hometown to the second highest mountain range of the world, it has been my everlasting companion. Along the way it has helped me to understand people and their lives as well as my own. To me, photojournalism is a growing knowledge of the outside world while it parallels my own. It is a peak outside of my daily life...an attempt to put the world into perspective.
Throughout the Americas, landscapes change as much as the people and their cultures do. Or do they? Is that a small lake in Minnesota, or the vast waters of Lake Titicaca? The lay of the land has sculpted us into who we are as much as the weather has sculpted the earth.
These images are also a collaboration from around the world. From a giant ant on barbed wire to a cluster of flowers hanging over a lake in the amazon jungle, they hold a simple elegance.