Arriving Late in a Foreign Language

Luana Teifke works in that particular register where fashion photography remembers it’s also portraiture—images that feel like they interrupted something, caught a person between one thought and the next. "Lost in Translation" is a fitting frame for that instinct. Coppola’s film made a whole aesthetic out of dislocation: the beautiful, specific alienness of a place that isn’t yours, the way certain kinds of loneliness only surface in hotel corridors and at three in the morning in a city where you don’t speak the language. Teifke seems to understand that feeling from the inside. These images have it too.