laurent girard

I consider myself a photographer as much as I do a printer, because I make black and white darkroom prints for other artists and photographers, have been for the past thirty years. I use film and older medium format cameras in my work, it helps me slow down and pay attention to the image. I am also interested in alternative photography in the form of lumen prints, where I use black and white silver gelatin paper to contact-print leaves and flowers in the sun reminiscent of a botanical record.

Laurent Girard (b. 1966) is a photographer and darkroom printer based in Los Angeles. He studied film and photography at the School of Visual Arts in New York where he worked as a portrait photographer, and then concentrated on Lexington Photo Labs, printing for many artists and photographers. He later printed large scale b+w prints for Griffin Editions, also in New York. Over the years his images have become mostly fine art documentary architecture, with an emphasis on diptychs and other multiples. his work has been shown in many galleries and publications, as well as won a few awards. He moved to Los Angeles just when the covid pandemic started, he now has a new darkroom, and continues to make new images regularly, mostly on film.