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to document this unique moment."Gabrielle is so good at spotting wonderful characters and people, and we've worked together before," Laura tells me over the phone."I called her and basically said 'Hey, do you wanna run around London parks with me?'" The resulting book, , is the product of two weeks spent biking around London's parks and photographing people with a fresh appreciation for the outdoors.
"We both wanted to make a really beautiful timestamp almost, a record of this moment in time." Gabrielle's expertise is in spotting compelling faces in everyday life. As Laura explains,"her whole casting process is very organic. I've been walking around with her before, and she stops people and will say, 'Oh my god your face is amazing'. So we just asked groups of people who we thought looked amazing and happy; both of us had our eagle eyes open the whole time. It was all about the people we were shooting. We wanted it to feel relaxed, unfussy, raw." Through Laura's hazy, soft-focus lens, we see groups of people making the most of the days in-between spring and summer, lockdown and normal life. There's a focus on young people in the photos — something of a running thread through Laura's work — which was not a prerequisite for the photographer, but she found herself drawn to their"infectious energy". This, coupled with Laura's own excitement to be photographing again, made for a series of shoots with a tangible emotional quality, in which she and her subjects exchanged stories about life in a pandemic."On a personal level, I just felt my mind fully open up again," she says."It was such a special thing in the end because people were so up for talking, and I've never had that so much on a shoot before. After what felt like an eternity of being in lockdown, to suddenly be in conversation with people you don't know — we forget how much we depend on new experiences like that." and other international titles, had barely picked up her camera during lockdown — the unsettling times making for a creative drought."In the beginning, I thought 'Right, OK, amazing, I'm gonna take photos on all of my daily walks',” she explains. “But it wasn't making me happy for some reason — I just had no enthusiasm to be shooting. Usually, I get really excited about shooting details and more observational things, but I didn't have that energy." Whether it's manifested in a creative rut, or a feeling of intense loneliness and isolation, the pandemic and lockdowns have taken an emphatic toll on mental health,
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