tamara rafkin:
rafkin, born and raised in the deep south of the united states, has always had an affinity for place and those moments in time that bring her and a place together. a firm believer that spaces hold the resonance of the people that have inhabited them, she turned to exploring them photographically as a balance to the editorial photography that consumed most of her time in the nineties.
while living in manhattan from mid ninety-nine to late two thousand five, she turned her attention to the urban landscape that surrounded her. first with an attraction to vacant spaces in the middle of mass visual saturation, then she found herself attracted to the shift in reality that the city held at twilight.
rafkin now resides in belgium, as of the beginning of two thousand-six, and is working on several series: "sleeping houses" about her observance of belgian residential differences on the feeling of safety and security at home, "explorations" which captures moments and places encountered in her exploration of her new surroundings in europe and "organic abstracts" dialogues of color and form created from macro photographs of moss & lichen.
