Laura Chen Photo

15/05/2025

I’m delighted to be exhibiting works from my project ‘Words From Dad’ at London as part of the show ‘Unseen Narratives’✨

On display from May 16 - June 30

Honoured to be in great company of works by and 🙌

Join me at the opening reception tomorrow night 💌
May 16th • 6-8pm
64 Grosvenor St. W1K4PZ
Mayfair
London

A huge thanks to and ♥️

28/03/2025

Happy ‘Hypnosis’ EP release day for my band ! ❤️‍🔥 6 songs ready for your ears and eager to be heard👂

and I really found our feet as producers while making these tunes and had the best time playing around in our little home studio (aka a dedicated corner in our living room / kitchen)🎙️

Much love to the talented for round 2 of our music collaborations, adding his magic as co-producer and mixer 🪄

It was a joy creating the artwork and visuals again for my own project, combining my love for images and sounds. Swipe to see me next to the fortune teller who ended up on the EP cover as a symbol for the concepts it dips into. Hypnotic, spellbinding, spiritual, sometimes supernatural - it’s a sensory thing. This EP goes out to the crystal ball gazers 🔮🥂

01/12/2022

Extremely grateful and honoured to have been chosen as the Rabo Photographic Portrait Talent winner 2022 by the Dutch National Portrait Gallery! 🥂💐 Still can’t quite believe it.. what a way to end the year!

Many thanks to everyone from Dutch National Portrait Gallery and Rabobank for organising this award and the continuous support of new artistic talent, and of course Depot Boijmans van Beuningen for hosting the wonderful exhibition and awards ceremony! ✨

[🇳🇱 Repost ]: Gefeliciteerd Laura Chen met het winnen van de Rabo Photographic Portrait Talent 2022!
De serie ‘Words From Dad’ vertelt het verhaal van haar grootvader Tek Suan Chen, die ze zelf nooit heeft gekend. Haar grootvader kwam van China naar Nederland en moest zich aanpassen aan een nieuwe (westerse) cultuur. Chen laat in haar fotomontages de Chinese en Nederlandse cultuur versmelten tot een nieuwe identiteit door meerdere familieportretten aan elkaar te na**en. Chen ontvangt een geldprijs van €2.500,-.

De tentoonstelling Rabo Photographic Portrait Prize is nog te zien in Rabo@depot op de vierde verdieping van depot Boijmans Van Beuningen t/m 11 februari 2023 (donderdag t/m zaterdag).

13/11/2022

NL vrienden, stem a.u.b. op mijn portret als je het Depot Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam bezoekt!

Ik ben vereerd om genomineerd te zijn als Dutch National Portrait Gallery Rabo Photographic Portrait Talent! 🤍📷

Van 5 november 2022 t/m 29 januari 2023 worden de shortlistportretten tentoongesteld in Depot Boijmans van Beuningen Rotterdam. Bezoekers van de tentoonstelling kunnen t/m 30 November stemmen op hun favoriet. 
De winnaar van de publieksprijs ontvangt 1.000 euro en zal eveneens op 30 november tijdens de uitreiking bekend gemaakt worden.

Ik denk niet dat mijn opa ooit had kunnen verwachten dat zijn portret en verhaal door zoveel mensen zou worden gezien en gehoord!

17/09/2022

I had an amazing few days celebrating the opening of the Foam Talent 2022 exhibition! ❤️ It was a very surreal experience to showcase such a personal project and be able to share my story with others. I feel very grateful for everyone who joined me at the opening weekend and who came to the Talent Conversation talks and tours today. It was very lovely to see so many new and familiar faces, from family to friends, fellow artists and kind visitors.

My project ‘Words From Dad’ will be on display at until January and after that will travel elsewhere. I’m excited to share more on that soon! 🧧

Many thanks again to the team for giving me this wonderful and unique opportunity and big congratulations to all the other selected artists of this year’s edition! 🎉🥂

06/09/2022

Looking forward to the Foam Talent 2022 exhibition opening event on September 15th! Free to the public - come and celebrate with me with music and drinks at Foam Amsterdam from 18:30 - 22:00 🥂

On the 17th, you can hear myself and a line-up of fellow Talents speak about our work through personal presentations and guided tours. Join the conversation at 14:00 - 16:00 🗣

22/04/2022

Very excited to be featured in this week's new episode of 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙐𝙣𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙚𝙙, a documentary series by Canal180 about the new generation of emerging photographers and how they are constructing their images.

🔗 You can watch the full episode at canal180.pt and tomorrow on Portugese TV at 10:30pm.

Had an amazing trip to Porto a few weeks ago to view the physical collective exhibition in person! 📷

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05/03/2022

Over the moon to announce that I have been selected as one of this year’s 20 Foam Talents! 💫

You can order a copy of Foam Magazine #61 Talent Issue now!

Featured in this issue is my ongoing series ‘Words From Dad’ that explores my Chinese heritage. With the use of archival images from my own family albums, I trace back my mixed roots through my grandfather’s life stories, as told by my dad.

Wonderful to see my work in print alongside that of many great artists and writers!

Here are some snippets of a few pages, including a beautiful and evocative accompanying essay written by Sunil Shah.

You can read more about ‘Words From Dad’ on my website and in the Talent Issue 🤍

04/11/2021

I’m really pleased my series ‘Killer Queens’ is part of Shout Festival 2021 and will be exhibited in the streets of Birmingham from 15 - 30 November! ✨🌈

HAWKER YARD
62-70 Pershore Street
Birmingham
B5 4RU

Q***r Photography at Southside is a free & public photography exhibition, so do come check it out if you’re around!
https://shoutfestival.co.uk/.../queer-photography-southside/

My images will be shown alongside the work of fellow artist Holly Revell, with whom I will also be hosting GRAIN's next Photo Café - an online artist talk on the 18th November at 6pm.
You can book a free ticket for the talk here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/.../photo-cafe-shout...

11/08/2021

👑 'Killer Queens' the Polaroid series featured in FRESH EYES 2021

This is the third edition of the book with new and emerging photography talents from across the European continent. Powered by GUP magazine 🖤

11/08/2021

Thank you Musée Magazine for featuring my 'Killer Queens' series! 🖤

Images and Text by Laura Chen For my series Killer Queens, I have photographed 40 individuals from Birmingham's (UK) LGBTQ+ and drag community; the scope and participation of which demonstrates the growth of this countercultural scene in contemporary Britain. The colourful body of work—which cons

03/07/2021

Pleased to see my image from my series 'Words From Dad' featured in PHmuseum and PhEST's Reunion Calling open call!

Read the article and check out the photo collages here:
https://phmuseum.com/news/reunion-calling?utm_source=PHmuseum&utm_campaign=3c517ced21-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_06_30_06_55&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4fc8445dad-3c517ced21-169151110