Lola Lazaro Hinks is a British artist from London. She creates objects, sculpture and cameraless photographic prints from materials such as kilnformed glass, steel and light-sensitive paper. Though trained as a photographer, she was always more interested in the dynamic space between photographer and photographed. Her work explores surveillance, control, the power dynamics within seeing and, in particular, the reversal of those power dynamics: claiming the right to look and be seen in a world that has weaponised observation.
Her interest in glass stems from the material’s relationship with surveillance and photographic technologies. For this reason the lens features prominently throughout, as it explores the liminal space in observation – extending, distorting and expanding sight. The qualities of transparency, translucency and opacity are material ways Lola experiments with blocking, obscuring and revealing vision. At the core of her interest is the use of punctuated visibility to explore more nuanced ways of being—ways that resist constant exposure—as a response to the normalisation of surveillance in society, ultimately reclaiming and amplifying the deep desire to be seen and known as human.
She graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2018 with an MA in Ceramics and Glass, and completed her BA in Fine Art Photography from the Arts University Bournemouth in 2012.
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