Hot Shots : Rachel Hulin
Artist Statement
I have been taking pictures for about 10 years in many different guises - first as a high school art student, then as an editorial photographer for my college newspaper, and finally in a Master's program and on my own. I have been working on a landscape series and a series about my mother for the past few years. I am influenced by Elger Esser and Richard Misrach - I love a sense of painterly minimalism in a photograph. Lately I've been looking at Andrea Modica and Ralph Eugene Meatyard as I start to include people in my images (which I managed not to do at all for several years). I am excited about the work I am creating of my mother. I am attempting to create a narrative about her while placing her in a personally meaningful landscape and environment.
Biography
Rachel Hulin came to New York in 2000 and found a job in production at Condé Nast. Although the pointy shoes and glamorous cafeteria were alluring, she decided to apply to graduate school. She received her MA in studio art two years later. She spent several years helping to run the full-time programs at the International Center of Photography and eventually moved into photo editing, working at Nerve.com, Rolling Stone and RADAR.
Recently, Rachel has been writing about photography, first, at Photoshelter's Shoot! The Blog, and now, on her own site, A Photography Blog. She is also a photo columnist for The Daily Beast and The Faster Times. Rachel has been making her own work slowly but surely throughout the years. It has been shown at Jen Bekman Gallery, when she was a Spring 2005 Hot Shot, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Wallspace Gallery and The New York Photo Festival, where she also co-curated a show in May 2009.