FREE Opening Day: Laurie Simmons: Big Camera/Little Camera

Enjoy free admission to the MCA and be of the first to see Laurie Simmons: Big Camera/Little Camera. Have your face made up to look like a piece of Laurie Simmons’s work, then schedule a session with experiential photography studio Aura Aura to capture the day with an unforgettable portrait.

About AURA AURA

AURA AURA is an experiential portrait practice of Detroit-based creative, Eileen Lee. This project explores the #humanatmosphere by utilizing analog technology and instant film that is no longer being produced. Through a double exposure process of capturing your bio-magnetic, vibrational energy, AURA AURA makes the metaphysical visible, resulting in awe-inspiring, one-of-a-kind portraits. Each session is $45.

  • Session with AURA AURA includes:
  • One instant film portrait of you in your aura
  • An information card for reading your aura
  • A box for safekeeping
  • A brief personalized interpretation of your aura colors

Featured images

A dark-skinned person in front of a luminous violet background gazes upward past you, but upon closer inspection it seems their eyes are not real.
Laurie Simmons, How We See/Ajak/Violet, 2014. Pigment print; 70 x 48 in. Lise and Michael Evans. Photo courtesy of the artist and Salon 94, © Laurie Simmons