February • 2022
Lauren was amazing!
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
1 review$500 - $3000 / Day
Request QuoteLauren Vied Allen is a Mexican-American photographer, motion director, and stylist focused on food and travel as a means of gaining a larger understanding of cultural identities and enriching her community. She documents culinary traditions, food, people and the crossroads where they collide to create compelling photographic stories.
February • 2022
Lauren was amazing!
The journalist and cookbook author, who grew up traveling between Atlanta and Puerto Rico, collects dishes that tell stories about life on the island, and the flavors that bring her back to it.
“GRITO” creates a positive voice for those disenfranchised by systemic racism, poverty, ICE raids, natural disasters, and disease, sparking dialogue about the richness the Latinx community brings to rural America, specifically Eastern North Carolina. It also showcases how the South, often depicted as singular in culture and slow to progress, is actually a diverse community full of vibrant culture and progressive minds. Lastly, “GRITO” creates an art space that empowers the Latinx diaspora in North Carolina.
There’s a sharp chill in the air. Donning a goldenrod-yellow shirt with the words “Pay Black Farmers” emblazoned across the front and with long two-strand twists tied back away from her face, Gabrielle E.W. Carter tends to tomatoes steaming in a cast-iron pot atop a live fire, the light glinting off her skin as smoke wafts upward into the night sky.
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