Denise Laurinaitis is a photographer and writer. Her work expresses an implied narrative and explores topics of family, identity, memory and time.
Denise holds a BA from Georgetown University, a JD from Hofstra University School of Law, has studied at the International Center of Photography, and is currently pursuing an MFA at Maine Media College. She has won numerous awards, including First Place at Center for Photographic Art’s International Juried Exhibition 2024, PRC Choice Award (Directors Award) at Photographic Resource Center’s Exposure 2023, Third Place Winner at Soho Photo Gallery’s 2023 National Competition and Honorable Mention at Colorado Photographic Arts Center’s 2023 Member’s Show. She was selected as a Critical Mass Top 200 Finalist in 2023 and 2021 by Photolucida and has been featured in various publications including Lenscratch and the Boston Globe. Her work has been exhibited nationally.
Artist Statement
There is an intimacy that I crave, a love I express, a tenderness in heart, a connection, a breath. In all of this, I fear impermanence – and its permanence.
I create as an act of hope and remembrance, hovering in moments of sensual ephemerality to make evidence of the tension between pleasure and peril, memory and its fragile echo.