Layla Love

Layla Love is an American photographer based in New York. Her works generally focus on disadvantaged, exploited, and trafficked people.

Life, education and photographic work Love was born in 1979 in Los Angeles, California. Growing up in California, Washington D.C., and Ireland, her childhood was characterized by continuous travel. By age 12, Love developed a fascination with photography.

Love studied at UC Santa Cruz and Richmond, The American International University in London.

At age 21, she ventured to war-torn areas with a focus on the plight of women and traveled to Chad, and at the Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AiPAD) Photography Show in New York in 2009.

Exhibitions Love has exhibited photography domestically across the United States as well as internationally.

2007 - Representing Woman – Unbreakable Surrealism solo exhibition, World Culture Open Center, New York City 2021 - Art on Paper, Insight Artspace Art Fair, New York City 2023 - Champions, Art Exhibition at Gleason's Gym, New York City Permanent Collections

The Diamond Rooms of 30+ locations of Tiffany and Co. as of 2011

In 2016, Love, with Gloria Steinem, conceived of Rise of the Butterfly, to provide a sustainable source of funding for grassroots organizations working to fight human trafficking and help women and girls around the world recover from being trafficked.

Rise of the Butterfly aims to connect the Fine Art world with survivors of Human trafficking. Prior to founding Rise of the Butterfly, Love worked in conflict zones to help emancipate women from prostitution, slavery and other forms of human trafficking.