Lauren Henkin
Lauren Henkin (b. 1974) is a photographer currently residing in Maine. For the past two decades, her work has focused on how humans occupy and relate to space, especially with regard to constructed forms and surrounding landscapes. Henkin's series What's Lost Is Found, which documents the people and places of the Black Belt of Alabama—Hale County, in particular—was made during her tenure as the inaugural Do Good Fund artist-in-residence. A portfolio of images from the project was later acquired by the Archive of Documentary Arts at the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library as part of a collection award in 2017.
Henkin's photographs live in dozens of collections, including the Cleveland Museum of Art; the Amon Carter Museum of American Art (Fort Worth, TX); the Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR); and the High Museum of Art (Atlanta), among others. Blouin Artinfo, Musée Magazine, Photo District News, New York Magazine, Oxford American, Landscape Stories, L’Oeil de la Photographie, The Georgia Review, and The Maine Review all have featured her work. Henkin is also the founder of Vela Noche, a publisher of handmade books, broadsides, and boxed editions of photography and poetry.