Lauren Dukoff is an American

United States

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 photographer noted for her portraiture and documentary work of celebrities and musicians.

Lauren Dukoff was born in California

California

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. Her father is a commercial director and still photographer. Lauren Dukoff briefly studied photography at the Brooks Institute of Photography

Brooks Institute of Photography

Brooks Institute is a system of two for-profit private arts colleges based in Santa Barbara, California and Ventura, California, owned by Career Education Corporation. Formally known as "Brooks Institute of Photography," Brooks Institute offers four majors, two certificate programs and two...

 but left after one year. She learned photography from her father and got her start by documenting the musical career of long time friend Devendra Banhart

Devendra Banhart

Devendra Obi Banhart is a singer-songwriter and visual artist. Banhart was born in Houston, Texas and was raised by his mother in Venezuela, until he moved to California as a teenager. He began to study at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1998, but dropped out to perform music in Europe, San...

. Dukoff was also mentored by music photographer Autumn de Wilde

Autumn de Wilde

Autumn de Wilde is an American photographer best known for her portraiture and commercial work photography of musicians.-Early life:...

.

Career

Lauren Dukoff has photographed Beyonce, Lady Gaga

Lady GaGa

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, Sting, Katy Perry

Katy Perry

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, Devendra Banhart

Devendra Banhart

Devendra Obi Banhart is a singer-songwriter and visual artist. Banhart was born in Houston, Texas and was raised by his mother in Venezuela, until he moved to California as a teenager. He began to study at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1998, but dropped out to perform music in Europe, San...

, Adele

Adele (singer)

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, M.I.A.

M.I.A. (artist)

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, Kim Gordon

Kim Gordon

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, Beck

Beck

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, Justin Bieber

Justin Bieber

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, Mary J Blige, Sheryl Crow

Sheryl Crow

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, Morrissey

Morrissey

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, Neil Young

Neil Young

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, Ashlee Simpson

Ashlee Simpson

Ashlee Nicole Simpson is an American singer and actress. In 2004, she rose to prominence with the success of her number-one debut album Autobiography and the reality series, The Ashlee Simpson Show. In October 2005, following a North American concert tour and a film appearance, Simpson released...

, Joanna Newsom

Joanna Newsom

Joanna Newsom is an American harpist, pianist and singer-songwriter from Nevada City, California.- Early life :Newsom grew up in the small town of Nevada City, California...

, Lil Wayne

Lil Wayne

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, Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs, Cobra Starship

Cobra Starship

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, The Strokes

The Strokes

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, Mila Kunis

Mila Kunis

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, Natalie Portman

Natalie Portman

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, Charlotte Gainsbourg

Charlotte Gainsbourg

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, Olivia Wilde

Olivia Wilde

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, Zooey Deschanel

Zooey Deschanel

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, the cast of True Blood

True Blood

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, Mad Men

Mad Men

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 and Glee

Glee (TV series)

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 as well as a number of other musicians and actors. Dukoff’s photos have appeared on the cover of the German Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone

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, Japanese Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is a US-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J...

 and on the pages of L'uomo Vogue, Spin Magazine, Elle Magazine, Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair (magazine)

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, Nylon

Nylon (magazine)

Nylon is an American magazine that focuses on pop culture and fashion. Its coverage includes art, beauty, music, design, celebrities, technology and travel...

, The Guardian

The Guardian

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, Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times

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, Another Magazine, Dazed & Confused

Dazed & Confused (magazine)

Dazed & Confused is a British style magazine, that was set up in 1992 and published monthly. Its founding editors were Jefferson Hack and Rankin...

, Oyster Magazine

Oyster magazine

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, W Magazine' along with many other publications. In addition to her celebrity and editorial work, Dukoff has shot major ad campaigns for clients such as Nike

Nike, Inc.

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 and The American Red Cross.

Chronicle Books published her first book Family in 2009. Family collects 100 of Dukoff’s portraits and candid images of Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, Entrance, Bat for Lashes, Feathers, Espers, Vetiver, Bert Jansch, Vashti Bunyan, and many others individually and together, in performance and more private spaces. Complementing the photographs are a foreword by Devendra Banhart, text and artwork by the musicians, biographies, and a digital download of music by artists featured in the book. When interviewed about the book Dukoff said "FAMILY is simply a documentation of a moment in time among friends. I am not trying to make a statement about the music they make.

Lauren Dukoff has exhibited her work at the UCLA Hammer Museum

Hammer Museum

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 in Los Angeles in collaboration with a performance by Devendra Banhart's and Gregory Rogove's project entitled Megapuss

Megapuss

Megapuss is a band with the following members: Devendra Banhart, Gregory Rogove , Fabrizio Moretti , and Noah Georgeson...

., the San Francisco Eleanor Harwood Gallery, REDCAT in Los Angeles Galerie Chappe in Paris and The Monster Children Gallery in Sydney. To celebrate the release of her photography book Family, Dukoff had a solo show at Gallery Space located in Space 15 Twenty in Los Angeles, CA. Dukoff curated performances and film nights that included Devendra Banhart, Matteah Baim, Hecuba and others to celebrate the release.

Technical Information

Lauren Dukoff works almost exclusively with the medium format film camera. Mamiya

Mamiya

is a Japanese company that today manufactures high-end cameras and other related photographic and optical equipment. With headquarters in Tokyo, it has two manufacturing plants and a workforce of over 200 people...

 645 She has expressed her devotion to shooting film vs digital and can be quoted saying "I am a film photographer, it's what I do and it is what defines my style".

Musician

Lauren Dukoff has been credited as playing flute on Devendra Banhart's 2004 release Nino Rojo

Niño Rojo

Niño Rojo is the fourth studio release by freak folk artist Devendra Banhart and his third release on the label Young God Records. It was released on September 13, 2004....

, Banhart's 2007 release Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon

Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon

Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon is a Devendra Banhart album released September 25, 2007. This album features more instrumentation than the previous records, as well as more genre experimentation...

, and Matteah Baim's 2007 release Death of the Sun.

Personal life

Lauren Dukoff lives and works in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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CA. Lauren Dukoff is also known as Lo or Lolo to her close friends and family.

Sources

• http://www.interviewmagazine.com/blogs/music/2009-06-17/lauren-dukoff-devendra-banhart/ Interview Magazine Article
• http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/18/NSHC15TP3I.DTL/ San Francisco Chronicle Article
• http://www.latimes.com/features/lifestyle/la-ig-dukoff9-2009aug09,0,2310039.story/ Los Angeles Time Article
• http://www.nylonmag.com/?section=article&parid=2656/ Nylon Magazine Article
• http://new.printmag.com/Article.aspx?ArticleSlug=NVA_2009_Lauren_Dukoff/ Print Magazine New Visual Artists of 09 Article
• http://naturalismo.wordpress.com/category/lauren-dukoff/ Interview with Lauren Dukoff
• http://kitsunenoir.com/blog/2008/03/11/lauren-dukoff/ Article on Lauren Dukoff
• http://www.devendrabanhart.com/photospage.html Devendra Banhart's Official Site
• http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15816808 Lauren Dukoff's work NPR
• http://www.laurendukoff.com Lauren Dukoff's official website
• http://music.guardian.co.uk/pop/story/0,,2144242,00.html