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"Looking for lesbians": the photo that emerged from an ad on Craigslist

2020-12-03T20:00:24.289Z


'Babelia' proposes that photographers choose an image of which they keep a special memory. Laia Abril, who exhibits her latest work at the Foam museum in Amsterdam, chooses a frame from her beginnings


"I'm looking for lesbians," read the ad that Laia Abril (Barcelona, ​​1986) placed on Craigslist, a classified ads website.

It was 2009 and the young photographer had just arrived in New York after obtaining a degree in Journalism in Spain.

"I wanted to learn photography more than studying photography", clarifies the author.

“Learn to focus on a topic and tell a long-term story.

Tell what I wanted, without being determined by a newspaper or commercial order.

In the beginning, my ...

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