Gavin's Self Portrait

Gavin Lauchenauer is a lifelong Santa Monica resident, and has been involved with photography as far back as he can remember.

Gavin does not particularly relish talking about, or explaining his work. There is certainly a great deal of precedence for this position about letting the work speak for itself, Edward Hopper immediately comes to mind.

For Gavin, this reticence is born from conviction and confidence rooted in a great deal of experience: experience which includes all facets of photography form shooting pictures to darkroom processing, from creative and experimental presentation of his work-including frame making Ðto presently experimenting with the manipulation of digital imagery.

Aside from his personal work Gavin has also worked as an assistant to commercial photographers on shoots all over the world. Many appear in Architectural Digest. This extensive travel has enabled Gavin to see first-hand a great variety of exotic flora, which is one of his passions.

Gavin Lauchenauer is a photographer who also happens to be interested in craft of all kinds, and experiments with combining his knowledge from varied disciplines to create pieces that go beyond photography. The impetus for these forays into this world of creation is not money or approval from others- though he, like other artists, is not opposed to such rewards- but rather a simple need to create, and quench his own curiosity.

It is a refreshing approach that also happens to be timeless.

- Jack Zoltak, 7/2003

Jack by Gavin