Award-winning photographer and director Lauren Greenfield on “My Most Important Photograph”

Lauren Greenfield has shot countless significant photo projects over the years, but which image does she regard as her most important? The award-winning photographer and director recently answered that question for Time‘s Lightbox blog, which is written by the magazine’s photo department.

“The photo that really launched my career was called Mijanou and friends from Beverly Hills High School on Senior Beach Day, a picture I took in 1993 in Santa Monica, California, as part of my project Fast Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow of Hollywood,” Lauren tells Lightbox.

“I came to make this picture circuitously through an internship at National Geographic, which was the professional experience to which my career is also indebted. In the process of making this photograph and the project for which it became the iconic image, I found my voice as a photographer.”

Read more, including how a National Geographic assignment photographing Zinacenteco Indians in the highlands of Chiapas sparked the genesis for Fast Forward, at “My Most Important Photograph: Lauren Greenfield, Los Angeles, 1993.”

 

Fast Forward

Mijanou and friends from Beverly Hills High School spending their Senior Beach Day at Will Rogers State Beach in Los Angeles. Mijanou won the title of “best physique” at Beverly Hills High. Photo by Lauren Greenfield.

 

This entry was written by Kristina Feliciano and posted on 04/23/2015 at 10:38 am and filed under interviews and behind the scenes, news & commentary with tags , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

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