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Layla Love Author & Illustrator

Layla Love’s artwork has displayed in prestigious locations worldwide, including The White House, Paris Photo, Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), Harrod’s of London, and over forty Tiffany & Co. diamond showrooms. Her images are and have been showcased alongside an array of artists including Kara Walker, Jean Michel Basquiat, Robert Mapplethorpe, Andy Warhol, and Henri Cartier Bresso. This season her art will be included in showcases in Egypt, Basel, Miami, New York & Los Angeles. Love has traveled around the globe exploring the spectrum of life from orphanages to royal palaces, seeking beauty and inspiration through photography. She believes art loses its ego when paired with purpose, so she contributes to philanthropic causes while working at grassroots levels to support evolution through art. Love takes pride in the highest quality work and has developed traditional darkroom techniques paired with an understanding of cutting edge technology, yielding hand-printed iridescent photographs in limited editions. Layla Love’s artwork has displayed in prestigious locations worldwide, including The White House, Paris Photo, Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), Harrod’s of London, and over forty Tiffany & Co. diamond showrooms. Her images are and have been showcased alongside an array of artists including Kara Walker, Jean Michel Basquiat, Robert Mapplethorpe, Andy Warhol, and Henri Cartier Bresso. This season her art will be included in showcases in Egypt, Basel, Miami, New York & Los Angeles. Love has traveled around the globe exploring the spectrum of life from orphanages to royal palaces, seeking beauty and inspiration through photography. She believes art loses its ego when paired with purpose, so she contributes to philanthropic causes while working at grassroots levels to support evolution through art. Love takes pride in the highest quality work and has developed traditional darkroom techniques paired with an understanding of cutting edge technology, yielding hand-printed iridescent photographs in limited editions. Emily Anne Gendron is a beacon of joy, inviting everyone into the fresh recognition of the beauty revealed through depth perception. While attending Princeton, she traveled to Africa and fell irrevocably in love with the human spirit. Experiencing unfiltered joy in the midst of poverty, she was forever convinced of what people can look like in relationship with life and one another. Now, in her writings and her work, she guides others as they move toward a life, business or project beyond imagination, consistently and deliberately creating essential results. She is a contributing writer for the Copenhagen Institute of Future Studies publication, Scenario, and works as a coach, writer and and collaborator in the New York City and San Francisco art worlds including extensive work with Brooklyn-based photographer, Marc Baptiste and Layla Love. Emily Anne's roster of clientele also includes Fortune 50 companies as well as entrepreneurs, creative catalysts and world weavers who audaciously reflect the whole beauty and high order of effortless existence.