Lorena Morin

Mother of 5 children, Lorena Morin lives in Berlin with her family. A member of the Temps Zero collective, she has been obsessively photographing her loved ones and their life together since 2008. She photographs her family and herself in common areas of the house, such as bedrooms, corridors, bathrooms and kitchens. Her work is based on the intimate diary and at the same time on a new re-signification of the family photo album. She closes her hands and collects them, brimming with the passage of time and the rapid flight of days: memory, recollections, intimate and family life as a mother, as a woman, as a lover. Always surrounded by the people she loves most.

 

Lorena Morin does not use digital tools and works with traditional large format, medium format and polaroid cameras. Colour and black and white photographs. Intimate images, in which the author, her partner and her five children appear through a story constructed as a photographic diary elaborated throughout her days.
The title of her work Je reste avec vous is taken from the epitaph on the tomb of the poet Jean Cocteu, buried in Milly-la-Fôret. I remain with you. A declaration of love that bets on life. A work that reflects his daily life and focuses on his personal and family universe. A coherent work, wildly emotional, close, radical, attentive and immensely beautiful.