Lauren Borer is a Swiss-American visual artist and photographer. Her experiences have created the foundation for her artistic concepts, exploring the obstacles of descriptive language and how words impact the ways we interpret our realities visually, verbally, and tangibly. Through alternate processes, medium experimentation and sensory awareness, she uses photography as a tool to question the well established frameworks of visual art — within the medium, the self, and culture.

Lauren’s images often serve as quiet dialogues between perception and experience, seeking not only to document what is seen but to translate the systems we use to define it. She has a deep-rooted appreciation for natural phenomena and ontology: the branch of metaphysics dealing with the nature of being.

Her photographic work falls into many categories but centers on a blend of fine art and documentary with experimental compositions.

Lauren is getting her Bachelor's degree at Appalachian State University in Fine Art Photography and she plans on returning to Lausanne, Switzerland after graduating to pursue her Master's in Fine Arts.

Her current work focuses on defining these elements and exploring the shortcomings of institutional expression through her own documentations of culture, human experience, and the built environment.