Lauren Spencer Gayeski

Lauren Gayeski is a documentary family photographer, born and raised on the New Jersey shore.  Though formally educated as a nurse, her journey into photography was led by a natural curiosity to explore and document the human experience.  Her work echoes the complexity and significance in everyday experiences through her use of color, highlighting stories of faith, community, water, and what it means to be human.  Lauren’s work has been recognized by the Documentary Family Awards, Click Magazine’s 2020 + 2021 Voice Image Collection, This is Reportage: Family, and since 2020, her work has been exhibited in galleries across the U.S. including New Jersey, Texas, California, North Carolina, Oregon, and NYC.  Her most recent projects focus on the coming of age, community, and faith identity in the 21st century.  She is a member of both Click Pro Photographers and Documentary Family Photographers Worldwide.  She is a lover of words, both writing them and reading them, though she prefers run on sentences and her nightstand includes no less than six half-read books, all dogeared with evidence of good intentions.  Lauren lives with her husband and three teenage sons in Ocean City, NJ.