Laura Singer Walters is a Baltimore, Maryland native but has spent the last thirty years calling the Philadelphia region her home. Her interest in photography was cultivated during her teenage years at the McDonogh School and further developed when she pursued her Bachelor’s Degree in Photography from Drexel University.
During her time at Drexel she fell in love with electronic music and began to attend techno events at nightclubs and raves. She began to bring her camera to these nights and soon had discovered that she was documenting an underground youth culture. This body of work culminated in an exhibition at the New Arts Salon in Philadelphia with several images being published in the international dance magazine, MixMag in the late 1990s.
After completing her degree, Laura continued her education at Moore College of Art and earned her certification in Art Education in 2000. Her practice of photography took a hiatus while she immersed herself in teaching high school. During her time as art educator, photography always found it’s way into her lessons, as she enjoyed sharing her knowledge and skill with her students.
When her first son was born, she used the opportunity to document her life as a mother quietly battling postpartum depression. She also used her time to traveling to upstate New York each summer to work with master craftswomen, she explored the possibilities of integrating her photographic work with mixed media and found objects.
She returned to Moore to pursue an MFA in Socially Engaged Art at Moore College in the fall of 2021. Her written thesis explored methods to help high school art educators assist their students in making their self-portraits more authentic and steeped in personal symbolism that challenges the public assumptions about teenagers living in contemporary society.
Her recent body of photographic work, The Neverlands, casts her sons and their band of friends as “Lost Boys”, discovering the woods in play. In this work she describes the liminal space between being a boy and becoming a tween, of relishing the earth as an Eden before the fall.
She currently lives in Cherry Hill, New Jersey with her family.
