kiralawler

Kira Lawler


Missouri, USA
About

Kira Lawler is a photographer based in the Midwest. She was born in Minnesota and raised in Columbia, Missouri. She will graduate from the University of Missouri in 2021 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with an emphasis in Photography, as well as minors in Journalism and Art History. She has received scholarship awards for her achievement in journalism and photojournalism. Lawler’s work was recently featured in the 2021 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition at the George Caleb Bingham Gallery in Columbia, Missouri. Her upbringing in the midwestern United States is instrumental in Lawler’s work. Kira draws inspiration from the natural, personal relationships and stories, and her own struggles, as well as from photographers such as Gregory Crewdson, Alec Soth, Ansel Adams, and Andrea Tese. Her work brings in themes of rurality, religion, emptiness, grief, family dynamics, identity, and whiteness.

Books by Kira Lawler