Bio­gra­phy

Cur­rently living in Leip­zig, artist Loreen Hinz (born 1983) has esta­blis­hed her­self as a fix­ture in inter­na­tio­nal Fashion & Beauty Pho­to­gra­phy. Her work can be found in nume­rous pho­to­blogs and on the web­sites of renow­ned labels. In balan­ced, pho­to­gra­phic com­po­si­ti­ons, strong con­trasts of light and color often emerge, as well as an expe­ri­men­tal moment in the form of motion blur, which occurs while cap­tu­ring an image with the camera. Only occa­sio­nally does Hinz carry out post-processing. The results are images of grace­ful female beau­ties inte­gra­ted into a mys­te­rious, dif­fu­sed environ­ment that lacks pro­per spa­tial defi­ni­tion. In con­junc­tion with blur­red con­tours, there ari­ses sen­sa­tion of dema­te­ria­liza­tion and trans­cen­dence.
On this basis, Hinz attri­bu­tes her fashion and por­trait pho­to­gra­phy to what she con­siders gene­tic raw mate­ri­als, clas­si­cal por­trait pain­ting from the 16th to the 19th cen­tu­ries. Refe­ren­ces to Old Mas­ters such as Titian, Cara­vag­gio, or Ing­res are inten­tio­nally cal­cu­la­ted, yet she avo­ids rep­li­ca­ting par­ti­cu­lar pain­tings by these artists. Instead, she cap­tures and sta­ges deli­cate color pala­tes, poses, attri­bu­tes, and blur­ri­ness only as a dis­tant sty­listic ideal wit­hout ever directly repea­ting them. In this man­ner, for­mal auto­nomy is pro­tec­ted, des­pite sty­listic pro­xi­mity to the arche­type. In con­nec­tion with her technically-perfect imple­men­ta­tion, this body of work has deve­l­o­ped an out­stan­ding visual effect and has achie­ved museum qua­lity.
Loreen Hinz’s per­so­nal style is not only tan­gi­ble through her elaborately-staged stu­dio ses­si­ons but also in her spon­ta­neous nude pho­to­gra­phy. Authen­tic images of a young couple making love, in the work “In Vivo,” mana­ges to create a dis­tance bet­ween the par­ti­ci­pants and the viewer by means of dif­fu­sed motion blur, which also allows the couple to recede from an all too voy­eu­ristic view. At the same time, this blur­ri­ness reflects the redu­ced per­cep­tion of the actors during love­making and relea­ses the act of love­making to an unrea­listic sphere. Added to this is the depiction’s well-thought-out com­po­si­tion that has also com­ple­tely achie­ved artistic merit. Ano­ther series “Lepi­d­op­tera” is dedi­ca­ted to the bal­let, and Loreen Hinz has suc­cee­ded in giving aes­the­tic charge to the theme through move­ment and dyna­mism found in the layout’s for­mal expres­sion. Since con­tri­bu­ting pho­to­graphs from her series “InVivo” to the Ger­man web­site art—Das Kunst­ma­ga­zin and hol­ding an exhi­bi­tion of select works withVogue Italy in Milan, Loreen Hinz has been reco­gnized as a high-caliber pho­to­gra­pher. Her sen­si­tive tre­at­ment of expe­ri­men­tal tech­ni­ques and portraiture-oriented design prin­ci­ples have ele­va­ted her images to the sta­tus of con­vey­ing supe­rior, sen­sual experiences.

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