I don't care about traditional photography. I want more control.

- Loretta Lux

My pictures are not really about the children that I photograph. They're more like actors in a film. I think you can always recognize the children, b…

- Loretta Lux

Childhood has been idealised as a lost garden paradise to which we can never return. We are excluded from this world of carelessness, innocence and u…

- Loretta Lux

I still think as a painter - especially in terms of structuring a picture... I carefully choose the models, costumes, requisites, and backdrops of my…

- Loretta Lux

The images are compositions of photos superimposed over painted backgrounds, then finished off with digital alterations.

- Loretta Lux

I trained as a painter, and I still love painting, but eventually I became aware that the physical aspect of painting didn't really suit me. I didn't…

- Loretta Lux

Usually I work with a digital camera and compose my works digitally or give them a finish on the computer, in order to make them meet my ideas perfec…

- Loretta Lux

I use different media, but I still think as a painter. I organize my forms and colors on a screen like a painter does on a canvas.

- Loretta Lux

[My subjects] look lost because that is how I see life. I think we are all a bit lost, lost in a world we can't understand.

- Loretta Lux