MariaLau.com
Title
MARIA LAU
Contact
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- jersey city NJ
- US 07307
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- 2127676701
Description
As an American of Cuban -Chinese descent, Lau’s cultural background and familial separation, instilled in her at an early age the paramount importance of cultural preservation. Her artwork and vision is often an exploration in identity and reflection of her multicultural heritage.
Her dedication to her Latin heritage lead her to study at the University of San Francisco, where she became an archivist of 17th century Jesuit documents for C.S.U. Furthering her Latin American studies she expanded into anthropology and landed a grant to work in Mexico. In the interest of detailing her field studies there she enrolled in a photography class that changed her course completely.
She instantly transformed her approach to documentation through photography. Experimenting initially with black and white and infrared, then evolving technically in search of new documentary methods. She states, “Photography was able to capture and express my inner dialogue in a way that I was never able to do with words. It’s been a journey of writing history through visual media to enable remembrances of life that would have otherwise been forgotten.”
