Layla Love Lift The Veils That Cloud The Beauty That Surrounds By Anthony Haden-guest

Layla Love Lift The Veils That Cloud The Beauty That Surrounds By Anthony Haden-guest

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Layla Loves methodology represents something rare in the venerable medium of photography. She mixes stuff up. That is to say she can be at once as objective about her subject matter and as committed to it as any member of the secular priesthood of Magnum, she can be as disturbingly intimate as Sally Mann and she can take off into a luminous world of high-tech pictorialism.

All of which she does without sacrificing consistency. She has a visual vocabulary -- ocean, flowers, butterflies -- in which words can play an integral part. And the words are such that you may feel you have been teleported back to High Hippiedom, but hold on, and listen up. Youre in for a bumpy ride.
Love was born in Los Angeles in 1979. She started having spasms and falling over when she was five and was diagnosed as having a disease much like juvenile Parkinson's. I was in a wheelchair. I was not well as a kid, she says. Her father had dropped out of the equation when her younger sister was six months old. Her mother took them to Washington, D.C. My mom, she is just a gypsy, her parents were gypsies. Literally. She got taken away from them as a child. Shes always been on the edge of poverty. I must have moved 30 times at least before I left home. I went to a different school almost every year. Different countries. And my mom, she wasnt an American citizen. She got pregnant with me on holiday. And thats why she stayed. We were never actually starving or anything. She was very loving.
It was her mother who bought her a camera. It was a little point-and-shoot, she says. This was in Miami. I was seven. And I always thought everything was beautiful and fleeting. So I photographed everything. I became obsessed. It was a way of holding onto people I loved. I made my first photo-album at seven. I photographed all sorts of things. Peacocks. I was always looking for water and sky. And I started making albums. And I never stopped.
She met Lisa Metzger, a professional photographer, when she was 12. She had re-met up her father. His girlfriend was a photographer, too. She did a very good story for the Washingtonian Magazine. A beautiful story about this little blind girl. So those two women inspired me.
And I think its fair to say that the reason I mix all those things is that I found all photography to be a lie. Because nobody was showing the whole spectrum of what the experience of life is. . . there was one part and the other part and the other part. But I think everything from the most mundane to the profound is relevant. I like overexposing myself, I photograph myself in much more compromising situations than I photograph anyone else. I am more respectful of other people.
Meaning what?
I photographed myself right after I got attacked in Australia. I took the pictures of myself covered in blood when I was in hospital. Other people might feel violated by those images. I came back and put a book together with the pictures.

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