Loretta Lux (b. 1969, Germany) – her photographs combine classical techniques with painting and digital processing. Famous for her stylized portraits of children, which is a focus of her art. All the works in an original, codified form exhibit inspirations by Victorian painting. The artist creates her compositions in two stages. Part of her artistic practice is the stock taking of previously created background contexts that provide the backdrop for her protagonists. She dresses her small models in vintage clothes from her own childhood and subjects their features and bodily proportions to subtle digital manipulation, which make the children resemble slightly bizarre dolls. By her own admission, the artist uses the portraits of children as metaphors for “paradise lost” and as a symbol of innocence.