Sonja L. is a self-taught photographer born and raised in Helsinki, Finland.
She likes to mix elements from fashion photography, vintage advertisements, pop art and popular American culture’s clichés.
“My vision is to create glossy, delicious looking and distinctive life photos that are a feast for the eyes and always contain a small story. I want my pictures to look like stills from some random movie and often my photos contain hidden references to a surrounding culture and history.”
Her sublime work often deals with materialism, vanity, suburban housewives’ lifestyles and womanhood in the Western world with an extravagant and kitschy style
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« My photos usually capture some ordinary moment in an extraordinary setting. They are at the same time both mundane and surreal. Visually I take inspiration from retro feelings of 1950’s-1960’s, vibrant colors of old Technicolor movies, vinyl album covers, 1980’s neon aesthetics, camp, and kitsch. »
<3: pop art, kitsch, camp, neon, 60s/70s/80s retro, neo-noir, lo-fi, synth, new wave
