ART interview by JÉRÔME SANS artwork by DEANA LAWSON american artist deana lawson immerses herself with her large-format camera in local communities and private lives, without intruding. she pays careful attention to lighting, poses, and visual compositions, revealing intimacy, romance, and sexuality as they are rarely seen. JÉRÔME SANS — Is love central to your work? DEANA LAWSON — Love is everything. Love is shown through the gaze: my own gaze and also the returned gaze of the subject. It’s also about introducing different representations of love. Some are familiar, and others are more uncomfortable or even darker than our ideas of what love is. Love is also power and change. It is light, literally, due to the fact that photography uses light to create images. JÉRÔME SANS — Do you think that sexuality has been considered for a long time as separate or different from love? DEANA LAWSON —…