CONTRA Feature by Lauren Festa 

“We discovered her name in what seemed at the time, an unrelated posting – a video for Oliver Peoples, starring folk musician, Devendra Banhart, who happens to be, one of Lauren’s most prolific subjects, not to mention, a close friend and collaborator, whom she has documented for many years. “[Devendra Banhart] was my first subject,” says Lauren, “I started naively taking pictures of him when I was 13, I don’t ever plan on stopping.”…