Ruby Carlson is an award-winning cinematographer born and raised in Los Angeles, California. Her first camera was the Olympus 35RC, a present on her twelfth birthday which she still uses today. She learned photography and cinematography from her father Van Carlson, and is influenced by post-minimal sculpture, painting from the Romantic era, and early cinema in her visual work.
Ruby’s practice extends beyond the visual to the written word. Her writing can be found in various texts of the Velaslavasay Panorama, including the 2018 article “Shengjing Panorama: A Landmark 360° Collaboration between the Velaslavasay Panorama and Experts of Chinese Panorama Painting,” published in the International Panorama Council Journal Vol. 2. Since 2008, Ruby has been engaged with P.L.A.C.E, a new mode of practice that is a critical return to the discovery of Freud and its construction in the topology introduced by Jacques Lacan.