Lauren is a Photographer from Baltimore, Maryland. She works as the Director of Photographic Services for the Marketing & Communications Department at Towson University. Castellana has been with TU for over seven years and has shaped the photographic identity of the university with award-winning work. Castellana’s love of lighting and cinema shapes her art, creating meticulous environmental portraits that tell complex stories. She has earned a BFA and MFA in fine art photography and also has a passion for teaching lighting classes and workshops, internationally and locally at MICA and Towson.
Photography stops a moment in time, a moment that will never exist again. But maybe that moment never really existed in the first place. I strive to bring a thought, a dream, a flash of memory to life. A fictitious story of invented melodrama.
Featured Work
Photos
Featured Work: Photos
Far From Home
Digital Pigment Print
2018
The Beltway Motel
Digital Pigment Print
2018
"The Beltway Motel" is a piece in a larger series of works. This series follows a female character through different acts of melodramatic self reflection.
