About

Laura Carty is a fine arts photographer from Annapolis, Maryland. She double-majored in Studio Art with a concentration in Photography and Arts Management at the College of Charleston.

She first started taking photos at age ten (because of how much she disliked having her photo taken), and hasn’t stopped since. She loves taking portraits, but has recently been focusing on landscapes.

She credits Stephen Shore, William Eggleston, Alec Soth, Ferdinando Scianna and Henri Cartier-Bresson as some of her biggest photographic influences.

“That’s what photography does. It’s very related to poetry. It’s suggestive and fragmentary and unsatisfying in a lot of ways. It’s the art of limitation. Framing the world. It’s as much about what you leave out as what you put in. With photography, you have one little moment, and you allow everyone else to fill it in.”

– Alec Soth