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This was one of my early- and actually remains my least popular rec on PI.FYI. However I could not recommend this enough. Laetita is an extremely warm and rare beauty and looking at images of her is addicting and makes me feel like I am accomplishing something even tho I am doing nothing. Her beauty basically fulfills. She’s also almost always smiling which I love. Everyone should smile more again in photos. She always looks impish and gleaming.
Feb 14, 2024
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Feb 24, 2025
She’s been my favorite since her work caught my eye on Tumblr, circa 2016. She photographs buildings, primarily in Southern California, where I live. You can find her on Instagram as casualtimetravel.
Southern California is naturally beautiful, but most of what’s been built here is based around cars - wide streets, strip malls, big parking lots - and there isn’t much beauty to be found in it.
Lots of photographers take photos of banal American architecture, but typically they seem to try to show it as ugly and soulless. Which, fair enough. SV looks at that architecture and shows us something else.
Her compositions are clever and precise, bringing elements together in brightly lit, complex compositions. The light is key for me. She embraces midday sun and its clear colors and sharp shadows. It’s what it feels like to live here where the beaming sun is an almost-daily presence.
But what really shines in her work, what I fall for every time, is the sense of humor that comes through her photos. I can imagine her smiling as she composes them, happy to see how she can bring the elements together for the viewer. Yes, the dull architecture is there, but it’s been cropped and composed into something almost whimsical.
It’s always there, in the supermarket parking lot, the back of a strip mall, the stucco facade of an office building, it just takes an artist to show it to us.
Feb 12, 2025
i love her so much. i feel like she is so good at encapsulating the beauty of all the people she shoots, and i love the filter she uses on her photos so much ! 🤍
Dec 9, 2024
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I have a love affair with Ok.Ru which to my understanding is Russian Facebook? For some reason if you search the video/photo section ok.ru has every single rare movie you could ever want to watch. It has popular ones too but I honestly have way more luck with the randoms. Two of my favorite movies Day for my Love by Juraj Herz and The Living World by Eugene Green were basically impossible for me to find anywhere but here.
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