Lauren Grabelle - The Last Man
The Last Man
Lauren Grabelle
While living on a remote Montana ranch where the land is bordered by mountains and forest, shared with top apex predators including grizzly bears, I’ve become focused on the harsh forces of nature and their relationship with humankind. I have a new understanding of birth, life, flight, death, and the transitions in between. I search for myself in a land that is not about me, making images of comfort, balancing unpredictability with a love of the earth and its creatures.
Lauren Grabelle is originally from NJ, she moved to Montana to heal the wounds created by living in the most densely populated state while isolated from nature. Her photography falls in the matrix where fine art and documentary meet, where she can tell truths about our relationships to other people, animals, nature, and ourselves. Her work is about empathy.
Her photographs have been included in exhibitions in galleries across the US and Europe, and in September 2018 at Gulf Photo Plus in Dubai, UAE. In 2021 her series, The Last Man, was recognized by LensCulture as a winner in the international photo competition HOME '21, and then in 2022 as a Critical Mass TOP 50 winner. Other projects have been featured in print and online in Harper's Magazine, The New York Times, Virginia Quarterly Review, High Country News, Humble Arts Foundation, Der Grief, Lenscratch, World Photo Organization, and others, as well as selected by jury for inclusion in American Photography 10, 17, & 36.
Lauren Grabelle is a Adobe Stock Premium contributor, a member of Women Photograph, and a photo editor for The Whitefish Review. Editorial work is represented by Redux Pictures. She is also a board member of the Community Association for North Shore Conservation - organizing to preserve the wildness and wondrousness of Flathead Lake.
A fine art and editorial photographer, I am based in Bigfork, MT, a short drive north of Missoula, and available for assignments everywhere.
