Through the Garden of Childhood

“Through the Garden of Childhood” is a series of photomontages based on memories and dreams from childhood, about the feelings carried throughout life, which to this day influence how I see and experience the world. I am after a rawness and a sense of living in process. I want to give visual form to the pain, joy, losses, damages and all those vague remnants that are at my core, which direct and enliven my imagination. I strive for each image to provide an 'as if' experience of holding up a mirror and showing me some small parcel of the internal remains of what it was to be my child self. I am working conceptually, creating a world that speaks to another era and that extends beyond the realm of the camera. I strive to make images, which blur the line of real and not real and possess an otherworldly quality that will transcend into the mythic. It is our world yet it is not. Every image tells a story, but the story is different for every viewer. They are images that begin with the hint of a story yet are ambiguous enough to allow for multiple scenarios. I aim for there to be a sensation of looking into a mythic world, where some may want to spin a tale while others are content with the visuals alone.

Leslie Hall Brown is a fine art photographer and psychotherapist from the USA. Leslie received the "Prix de la Photographie, Paris" (Px3) 2016 Best New Talent Award and first place from the 2015 (IPA) International Photography Awards in the category of Fine Arts, Self Publish Book. In 2014 she was endowed with the Julia Margaret Cameron Award, was a finalist for the 2014 Clarence John Laughlin Award, and received gold, silver, and bronze medals in the 2014 "Prix de la Photographie, Paris" (Px3). Her work has been published in print magazines and in various online photography magazines. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, in the US, Germany, Mexico, Spain, Thailand, Georgia, England and France.