Claire Rosen

Claire Rosen (born 1983) is an American fine art photographer based in New York. She was included in Forbes magazine's "30 Under 30" list in Art & Design for 2012 and 2013 in Art & Style.

Work Rosen's artistic style incorporates anthropomorphic animals, archetypal heroines, and symbolic still-life arrangements. Influenced by the aesthetics of the Pre-Raphaelites, her work often references the Victorian era. Her photographs are held in public and private collections.

Early life Born in New York in 1983 and raised in New Jersey, Rosen is the eldest daughter of Dolly and Edward Rosen. Her mother is a culinary historian specializing in Victorian-era cake baking, and her father is a banking and intellectual property lawyer. As a child, she would drape her younger sisters in sheets and pose them in the family's backyard. Her mother read to them from Grimm's Fairy Tales, Beatrix Potter, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and L. Frank Baum. Frequent trips to the zoo, the circus, and the Museum of Natural History fostered an interest in animals and taxidermy, themes that have appeared in her later work.

While interested in art as a youth, she did not pursue visual art until college, when she took her first photography class. During this period, Rosen began reading the works of Carl Jung, Freud, Joseph Campbell, and Bruno Bettelheim, which influenced her artistic development. depicts various animal species gathered around banquet tables, consuming their preferred foods, in compositions reminiscent of Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper.

Lectures

Rosen has led photography workshops internationally at institutions including B&H, Gulf Photo Plus, SCAD, and the Hallmark Institute of Photography. She has also given an artist talk at the National Geographic Photography Seminar in Washington, D.C.

Personal life

Encouraged by creative consultant Beth Taubner of Mercurylab to research her family history, Rosen discovered that her maternal grandfather, who died when her mother was young, was a Hollywood fashion photographer who often posed starlets with animals, a striking parallel to Rosen's own work. Reverie SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA, 2013

Awards and features

PDN Photo Annual, 2018 Short List, Communications Arts, 2018 The Fence, Photoville, 2017 Long List, Aesthetica Art Prize, 2016 Selected Photographer, The Fence, Photoville, 2016 Critical Mass Finalist, Photolucinda, 2016 Featured Artist, Der Greif magazine, issue 8, April 2015 Featured Photographer, Communication Arts magazine, Design Annual, Sept/Oct 2015 Selected Photographer, The Fence, Photoville, 2015 Selected Photographer, The Fence, Photoville, 2014 Second place, Professional Advertising, Prix de la Photographie, 2014 First place, Pro Still Life, International Photo Awards, 2014 Selected Photographer, The Fence, Photoville, 2013 30 Brightest Under 30 in Art and Style, Forbes Magazine, 2013 Second place, Professional Advertising, Prix de la Photographie, 2011 Second place, Pro Self Portrait, International Photography Awards, 2010 First place, Fashion Advertising, Prix de la Photographie, 2010 First place, Self Portraiture, Prix de la Photographie, 2009