Laura Letinsky is a cotempary artist /photographer who was born in Winnipeg, Canada. She is now currently a professor at the University of Chicago, Department of Visual Arts.
Letinsky has been developing her style since the late 90s. 17th Century Renaissance painting has influenced her throughout her work. Using a large format camera letinsky creates these stunning images of what looks like the after mouth of a meal. Letinsky creates her images in a controlled studio environment were she smashes fruit and spills wine.
This effect of the destroyed dinner table give the work a Memento mori feel to it. The big empty space in the images gives them a sense of emptiness. Memento mori means ‘remember that you must die’ so the empty whit in the images to me fells like that is the lose of someone and the leftover food is what has been left behind.
I really like the work of Letinsky I think that her images are simple but very effective. Also I think that her images are full of meaning and the sense that everything must come to an end.
Portraiture , Tableaux , Still life 