Laura Jaeger

Laura V. Jaeger is a Naarm/Melbourne-based multimedia artist, photographer, and designer whose work explores the relationship between frequency, light, and perception.

Currently completing a double degree in Design (Photo Media) and Media and Communications at Swinburne University of Technology, Laura also undertook an international study exchange across France and Italy in 2025, focusing on Fashion and Luxury Industries. This experience greatly deepened her understanding of material history, luxury aesthetics, and art direction.

Working across digital photography, video, and analogue processes, Laura has developed a distinctive visual language that captures emotion through texture, colour, and atmosphere. Her projects span fine art, editorial, textile, and experimental art and design, reflecting a long-standing curiosity about how visual and material forms can evoke feeling.

Her capstone body of work, The Unseen Wave a photobook and multimedia project, brings together her interests in light, sound, and emotional frequency through a series of poetic visual studies. Using Risograph and UV printing, she expands her mixed-media fine art photography practice into new material and sensory dimensions.

Beyond her individual practice, Laura enjoys collaborating with like-minded brands, artists, musicians, and designers to create work that merges conceptual depth with sensory experience. Notably, a five-year collaboration with Converse x/All Stars, with her photography published in Monsters Children magazine.

Trash Blooms

2025, Photomedia Capstone project, The Unseen Wave.
This is one of my faviorite edits from my photomedia capstone unit, this image uses the contrast of flowering flora and a B&W side of the road garbage corner reflecting on the subjectivity of beauty.

Cups

This image was created in a group collabation around how to use a regular object and make it into a portrait . Her professional experience as both a fashion model and a primary photographer provides a distinct view point.

Soft Holographic Lady

This image was created during my studio lighting class using a soft lighting setup. The original photograph was just as beautiful as the final edit shown here.

Do you where why & how?

This piece is a early Typography for Screen and Media class task. Creating with experimental photo techniques. Utilizing double exposure and text composition

IRL ORB

Laura explores the idea of a relationship between light, time, and perception in her capstone project. This mixed-media piece using scanogrpahy and long exposure techniques to achieve a deep sensory experience.

Acknowledgement of Country

The School of Design and Architecture respectfully acknowledges the Wurundjeri peoples of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Owners and knowledge-keepers of the lands, waters and sky that surround us, where we work, learn, create, communicate and make place. We recognise that sovereignty has never been ceded and this always was and will always be Wurundjeri Country. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who continue to make a better world through design.

We extend our acknowledgement to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff, students, alumni, real-life clients, and knowledge keepers, who have contributed to our own education diversity and growth. We will continue to ensure that staff and students respectfully honour ancestral connection to Country and Place in everything that they do.

We are dedicated to the notion of design to make a better world and we acknowledge that making tools, shaping place, sharing stories, making meaning, wayfinding and collaborating have long been and continue to be both central and integral to First Peoples' cultures. We recognize that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ cultural contributions have continued relevance to design practice and commit to: reconciling ancestries of design and contemporary practice as well as pursuing culturally and professionally appropriate ways to engage with a diverse population of colleagues, industries and clients. In a time of treaty-making and voice we understand that there are overlaps between caring for Country and the sustainable production of goods, services, experiences, products and buildings.

Guided by the principles of respect, reconciliation, and reciprocity we undertake to indigenising and decolonising design practice by dismantling colonial structures and challenging biases that have marginalised Indigenous voices and design.

As students of SoDA you will be given opportunities to both engage with and educate yourself in Indigenous creative practices and cultural protocols through a lens of inclusivity, diversity, respect, mutual understanding, inter-cultural dialogue in all aspects of design practice. Indigenous people have been telling stories, making tools, and connecting to Country through visual media, placemaking and place marking for more than 60,000 years and these practices are part of an ongoing, evolving and live tradition.