INTRODUCING MIRANDA LEHMAN
I grew up in California in a city just two hours north of Los Angeles and right on the coast. That ocean air hitting the heat is just incredible. Oh my god, driving to school in the fog is a feeling that will never ever leave me. I turned twenty-five in October. Photography didn’t draw me in until it became as easy as snapping with my mom’s digital point and shoot. It all started out of Vanity. I was transfixed by how the camera could change me, make me look older or younger or prettier. I was just 15, and having photography really felt like investing in a secret identity. I want to become more open and free, and I want to show others that they can have that too. Art is not a means to a feeling. Those feelings are a call for you to figure out how to experience that kind of euphoria on your own! I have no respect for artists who do the same thing over and over again. If you’re not risking failure with every project, you’re just fucking around. Photography and filmmaking have completely changed how I engage with the world. When I realize how limitless art really is, understand the total freedom we all have to make whatever we want, I travel through the world lightly and genuinely. It’s easier to express love, easier to express feelings, and more fun to be alive, period! I’ve realized there are very few real consequences in this world, and nothing’s so hard you can’t remain optimistic. I was born with an incredible restlessness in me, and I’d love to use photography as an excuse to appease it. Ideally, I’ll live nowhere and touch feet everywhere. I’d like to get a very small automatic camera that has a flash so I don’t have to keep shooting disposables. This is a picture of my eye. The day after I was crying blood because the white of my eye was literally all red. All blood. It stayed like that for maybe a month and I felt so tough. Nerijus Rimkus has the most compelling body of work I have ever seen. The uniqueness of his work thrills me.
