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Lavinia Branca Snyder is a New York City based writer, photographer and digital artist. She began taking photographs and laying out albums at the age of 11.

Her professional career in the field began as a designer
of illustrated photographic books in the early eighties. She began experimenting with digital images in the early nineties, developing the concept for three series of childrens books that would combine Lavinia's photographs with hand drawn characters. To date she has written and illustrated 12 children's books under the imprint of Lavinia's World. She also designed a plush toy
collection: The Ooshes.

In 2005, Lavinia's World was honored with Creative Child Magazine's Preferred Choice Award in the Character and Book category. Also in 2005, Lavinia's cartoon won a place as a finalist in the Mipcom Jr. License Competition at Cannes. In 2006 her book was named Book of the year by Creative Child Magazine.

In 2007, her photographs of Nazca were selected for the 9th Annual Abstraction Juried Online exhibition for the Upstream People Gallery (with Special Recognition). Also
in 2007, two digital art collage pieces titled "V" and Bad & Forth were chosen for the American Juried Art Salons Online Fall-Winter 2007 Exhibition. She also exhibited two pieces in Digital Long Islands National Juried Exhibition at the Mills Pond House Gallery in St. James N.Y.

In 2008, her photograph of Nazca titled "Big" was chosen for a group exhibition at the Firehouse Plaza Art Gallery.

Born in Rome, Italy, Lavinia earned her B.A. in Liberal Arts at Sarah Lawrence College, followed by graduate studies in History at Columbia University.

More about her work www.LaviniaBrancaSnyder.com

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