Loretta Lux (born 1969)[1] is a fine art photographer known for her surreal portraits of young children.
She graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts in Munich in the 1990s, and debuted at the Yossi Milo gallery, New York City in 2004.
[5] Lux often uses vast landscapes and empty spaces as backdrops in her staged photographs in order to depict alienation.
"[4] In a review in The New York Times, Roberta Smith calls her works „some of the weirdest, most subtly manipulated pictures of our over-digitalized moment.“[6] Other critics have described her portraits as "as charming as they are creepy" (The Village Voice) and noted that the children "have the air of self-created beings, a race of tiny Nordic monsters" (New York Times).
[4] In her essay, Francine Prose suggests that seeds of her East German upbringing are found in Lux's photographs.