Creativity definitely runs in Girls star and creator Lena Dunham's family.Her mum, Laurie Simmons, has been nominated for the prestigious Prix Pictet photography award, along with 10 other leading photographers from all over the world, who are competing for the prize of £67,000.

Apart from having had a guest appearance on Gossip Girl in 2011, New York-based Simmons, 65, also starred in her daughter Lena's feature film Tiny Furniture, filmed in 2009, playing her fictional mother.In The Love Doll/ Day 26 (Shoes), 2010, the doll is photographed crawling on the floor, surrounded by heaps of shoes, in an Imelda Marcos moment.This project began after Simmons ordered a custom, high-end love doll from Japan and began to "tease out a personality" and "allowed her persona to emerge" in a series of staged shots.By clicking ENTER, you agree to the statement at the bottom of the page.Gorgeous brunette Caprice and blond Erica show off their perfect bodies in this HOT lesbian scene!"A very little part." But first Simmons is taking the limelight with her 2009-2011 series of photographs, The Love Doll, which she submitted to the prize, which this year is centred around the theme of consumption.The Love Doll series features a lifesize latex sex doll from Japan and documents the ongoing days in the doll's life from the day she received the doll. Head), 2010, consists of a doll's head in a cardboard box, surrounded by bubble wrap; The Love Doll/Day 20 (20 Pounds of Jewellery), 2010, sees the glamorous doll weighed down with costume jewellery, while sitting on a sofa; The Love Doll/Day 31 (Geisha), 2011, shows the doll sitting elegantly on the floor in a silk kimono.