Loretta Lux

Loretta Lux is a fine art photographer from Dresden, Germany who makes surreal portraits of young children. She particularly favors portraying young children as otherworldly adults, using photoshop to give her photographs a foreign aesthetic which gives them a surreal feel. She also makes use of a low camera angle, bringing the viewpoint to that of the child in order to scale down the world to their size. The perspective from which we view the child is similar to the way children view adults, a viewpoint that we rarely ever see children from. Lux's use of various costumes that seem both adult-like and from an vague era also contribute to her photographs' surreal, stylized appearance.