Lex Machina is a photographer and digital artist from Detroit, MI.
Her work consists of portraits which illustrate and celebrate the seemingly endless subcultures that make up modern counter-culture.
Bio
Lex Machina is a photographer and digital artist from Detroit, MI. She took her mother’s film SLR to camp when she was 12 and nearly taught herself to use it. She has been working with digital photo editing processes since 1997. She dropped out of a film photography course at a local community college in 2001. In 2008 she purchased a DSLR and began shooting portraits.
Since, her work has appeared in numerous magazines, gallery shows, and even a music video. She’s had the good fortune to work with many talented personalities in the steampunk community, including The League of S.T.E.A.M., Evelyn Kriete, G. D. Falksen, The Imperial Anti-Piracy Squadron, and Parliament & Wake. As well as notable Detroit bands, including Servitor Sanctum 7.
She wants nothing more than to open a studio in a historic home or building, in the city of Detroit.
Statement
With my photographs I aim to make the freaks, geeks, outcasts, and weirdos, including my self, feel at home in their own skin. Both viewer and subject are invited to revel in all that keeps them outside the mainstream, and celebrate their own place among the counter-culture. I often prefer to shoot everyday subjects, and live for the moment a subject expresses their emotions upon seeing images of themselves that I’ve created.
Although I have a traditional film photography background, my digital editing processes often strive to mimic illustration, turn of the century photographic processes, or painting. I enjoy the process of taking something very real, possibly mundane, and making it appear completely unreal, impossible, or ethereal.
Artist Bio/Statement
Mini Bio & Statement
Lex Machina is a photographer and digital artist from Detroit, MI.
Her work consists of portraits which illustrate and celebrate the seemingly endless subcultures that make up modern counter-culture.
Bio
Lex Machina is a photographer and digital artist from Detroit, MI. She took her mother’s film SLR to camp when she was 12 and nearly taught herself to use it. She has been working with digital photo editing processes since 1997. She dropped out of a film photography course at a local community college in 2001. In 2008 she purchased a DSLR and began shooting portraits.
Since, her work has appeared in numerous magazines, gallery shows, and even a music video. She’s had the good fortune to work with many talented personalities in the steampunk community, including The League of S.T.E.A.M., Evelyn Kriete, G. D. Falksen, The Imperial Anti-Piracy Squadron, and Parliament & Wake. As well as notable Detroit bands, including Servitor Sanctum 7.
She wants nothing more than to open a studio in a historic home or building, in the city of Detroit.
Statement
With my photographs I aim to make the freaks, geeks, outcasts, and weirdos, including my self, feel at home in their own skin. Both viewer and subject are invited to revel in all that keeps them outside the mainstream, and celebrate their own place among the counter-culture. I often prefer to shoot everyday subjects, and live for the moment a subject expresses their emotions upon seeing images of themselves that I’ve created.
Although I have a traditional film photography background, my digital editing processes often strive to mimic illustration, turn of the century photographic processes, or painting. I enjoy the process of taking something very real, possibly mundane, and making it appear completely unreal, impossible, or ethereal.
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