Lauren Fedorchak is an analog photographer currently living in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, the former home of a large Kodak film processing plant. Her photographic endeavors have ranged from the experimental to the ostensibly traditional. Learning the craft with toy cameras during her photographic infancy, she became interested in camera design and production, eventually building several pinhole and fixed-focus, lens-based cameras. While she vacillates between many different cameras and film formats, her visual pursuits remain steadfast in their documentary and exploratory nature. Searching for the past within the everyday and attempting to preserve the ephemeral are thematic forefronts to Fedorchak’s artistic practice.
Her current photographic work explores the psychological complexities of inherited trauma in her life and in the lives of her mother and sister; having been raised and influenced by the family matriarch, a survivor of the Holocaust. Through a combination of portraiture, still life, and landscape photographs, Fedorchak takes inspiration from her family’s history and collective memory to form her photographic oeuvre.
Fedorchak received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Visual Arts from Ramapo College of New Jersey in 2014 and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Studio Art from Maine College of Art in 2019.