Biography
I am a Visual Artist, Producer, and Director from a fine-art photography and creative writing background - a certified camera nerd and storytelling enthusiast!
I am currently a Creative Producer at Bowstring Studios. In my day-to-day work, I direct and produce video work for non-profits, burgeoning brands, educational institutions, museums, Fortune 500 companies, and multi-platform advertising campaigns.
I’m also part of an art collective, In Rapture, where I am a Creative Director and Photographer. In Rapture has had the opportunity to have our work published and exhibited internationally.
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About the Collective: In Rapture
In Rapture, so named for the rapture with which we hold our ancestors who came before us, explores the complexities of history and identity through large-scale styled portraits and narrative photography. Our work seeks to access the ancestral world and repair ruptures to our ancestral lines caused by the interwoven histories of colonialism and capitalism.
We examine ancestral connections to geographic sites in a world impacted by the forced and voluntary migrations that took place under colonialism. The power of the geographic site plays a key role in our images. Whether that connection is represented through an echoing of the symbolism of the landscape, such as in the case of the ocean, or through an acknowledgment of the specific histories of occupants of the land itself, we avoid using the landscape as a “stage” for portraiture. The landscape is never simply a backdrop, but something that holds deep meaning, functioning as a living, spiritual element within the work.
We are surrounded by the divine. In our work, we seek to create real spaces where people can thrive as magical, divine beings. Importantly, we use film to record these divine apparitions. With film we are left with a physical object, an imprint of light on the negative; a tangible document. Our work is an ongoing process of reconciling our ancestral history with the present moment.
In Rapture is a project of two siblings - Dr. Rachel Grace Newman, an independent academic, writer, and artist, and Alexander Newman, a visual artist and creative director.