Hot Shots : Rebecca Smeyne
Artist 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.
Biography
Rebecca Smeyne is a documentary photographer who is a frequent contributor to the Village Voice and SPIN. She also works with Vice, Anthem, NYMag.com and many other publications, as well as private clients. Her character-driven, graphic and colorful photos have garnered several prestigious awards, including a Society of Publication Designers Finalist Medal and inclusion in the 25th American Photo Annual. She has shot all over the US, in Cuba, China, Mexico, Japan and the Phillipines, and was featured in one of the Jen Bekman Gallery's Hey, Hot Shot! exhibitions.