Laura Plageman creates photographic works that explore transformation, perception, and our relationship to the natural world. Working across digital and physical processes, she reshapes photographs into layered images that hover between representation and abstraction, reflecting on how places and images are never fixed.

Plageman earned a BA from Wesleyan University and an MFA from California College of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the de Young Museum, the Houston Center for Photography, and the Bolinas Museum. Her photographs are included in the permanent collection of LACMA and have been featured in Harper’s Magazine, WIRED, and other publications. She lives and works in Oakland, California.