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Frames of Mind Portfolio
Laurie Freitag
Frames of Mind began with the question of what else might exist inside a photograph once I stop treating the original frame as fixed. Everything in the series is photographed and created on my iPhone.
I work from a single photograph, repeatedly shifting and cropping it vertically and horizontally, allowing sections of the image to repeat, stretch and build upon one another. There is control in the process, but also discovery. I make choices throughout, while never knowing exactly what the photograph will become. I keep working until something unexpected appears and then follow it.
The rectangles and repeated frames began to remind me of screens — something that feels increasingly present in the way we experience the world. I spent years working in television, and now I spend much of my life looking through the rectangle of an iPhone or computer screen. Even very young children understand that something happens inside these glowing rectangles before they understand what they are.
In some images I introduce a single word — BREATHE, DRIFT, GROW, GLOW, BLOOM, RISE, FOCUS — not as a caption or explanation, but as another visual layer, a brief prompt or state of mind within the image.
One photograph opens into another and then another. The original image remains present, but it has been pulled apart, repeated and re-seen.
Laurie Freitag
Frames of Mind began with the question of what else might exist inside a photograph once I stop treating the original frame as fixed. Everything in the series is photographed and created on my iPhone.
I work from a single photograph, repeatedly shifting and cropping it vertically and horizontally, allowing sections of the image to repeat, stretch and build upon one another. There is control in the process, but also discovery. I make choices throughout, while never knowing exactly what the photograph will become. I keep working until something unexpected appears and then follow it.
The rectangles and repeated frames began to remind me of screens — something that feels increasingly present in the way we experience the world. I spent years working in television, and now I spend much of my life looking through the rectangle of an iPhone or computer screen. Even very young children understand that something happens inside these glowing rectangles before they understand what they are.
In some images I introduce a single word — BREATHE, DRIFT, GROW, GLOW, BLOOM, RISE, FOCUS — not as a caption or explanation, but as another visual layer, a brief prompt or state of mind within the image.
One photograph opens into another and then another. The original image remains present, but it has been pulled apart, repeated and re-seen.
I’m interested in the point where the photograph stops behaving like a record of what I saw and starts becoming something else. I don’t begin with a finished image in mind. I keep pushing the photograph, responding to what happens, until it gives me something I couldn’t have planned. That moment of discovery is what keeps me working.
Frames of Mind Portfolio
2026, The Phoblographer Magazine named Laurie Freitag one of "10 Incredible Women Photographers to Follow"
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