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rebecca smeyne
born: Lubbock, Texas
Currently resides in Brooklyn, New York

website:http://www.flickr.com/photos/97408022@N00/ 

work statement
My work is documentary in nature—an exploration of the points of interaction between people and nature that define a situation or environment. Contextually reductive, the compositions focus on serendipity of color and circumstance of pattern. I avoid abstraction, instead allowing the mundane, even vulgar, to become bizarre and beautiful objectifications of mood and representations of place, at once recognizable and mysterious.

bio
Born in St. Louis and raised in Texas, Smeyne moved to New York in 1996 to study social theory at Columbia University where she graduated early, with departmental honors for a thesis on the sociology of t-shirts. Since then, she has held positions as a fashion stylist, a party producer, a statistician, a casting agent, and a pr girl. Most recently, she became the editor, lead writer and photo director of the popular website myopenbar.com.

Inspired initially by fashion photographers like Mert and Marcus and Cedric Buchet, she began exploring contemporary photography beyond fashion—major inspirations include Lisa Kerezsi, Martin Parr, William Eggleston, Alec Soth and Tim Barber. In 2005, she received her first camera as a gift – an old Nikon FE bought on the day of her birth by her grandfather for her father. This is her first show.

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