RACHEL RECTOR

ARTIST BIO

Rachel Rector is a fine art film photographer whose work utilizes experimental film, cameraless photography, and historical printmaking techniques to evoke the ethereal, daydream-like quality of nostalgic moments in nature. She often adds poetry, collage, and textile elements to her hand-printed photographs to convey the sentiment of the natural space. Her images have been published in Polaroid, Huff Post, The Hand, and Lenscratch, and have been exhibited throughout the US. Rachel has developed educational workshops believing that eighteenth-century processes like cyanotypes and anthotypes encourage students to become more engaged with their environment.

PROJECT INFO

Of the 170,000,000 acres of original grassland prairie, only 11,000 acres remain. This rare section in the tallgrass of Oklahoma and Kansas is full of limestone and sandstone, making it impossible to farm. These same natural features are what defend the land to this day. Untouched//Unplowed uplifted everything that protects and sustains the prairie—stone, soil, fire, seeds, and light—treating these features not only as subject and material but as equal collaborators. This exhibition’s centerpieces featured large-scale, analog, and mostly camera-less images using sustainable darkroom processes.

Event Info: Exhibited at Positive Space Tulsa

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