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Chasing Colors at Play with @vegan_n_furs

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Twenty-one-year-old Sarah Favreau (@vegan_n_furs) goes through color phases. “Last spring it was a Silly-Putty pink, this summer was red, and right now I’m pretty hung up on mustardy yellows,” she says. “I love the positive connotations of candy colors, but also that they can perhaps conceal a darker narrative.”

Originally from Southern California, Sarah grew up as a figurative painter. Her interest quickly expanded into hybrid projects involving everything from textile production to ceramics to knitting—and always with a tendency towards sparsity. “Minimalism is a less forgiving approach. Everything in the frame of the image has to serve a purpose,” she says. “I feel more authorship in a piece when I know I’ve considered every edge.”

Sarah is currently working on her first formal photo series as part of her college thesis at the Maryland Institute College Of Art. She uses Instagram to feature her lighter, more experimental work.

“Young photographers aren’t as locked into who they are as artists and who they expect themselves to be,” she says. “There’s more room for play.”