Rebekah Campbell and the subjectivity of the feminine in contemporary fluidity. Dialogues between bodies communicating their fragilities
Rebekah Campbell – Strong enough to be no one
Rebekah Campbell – a young American photographer, originally from Oklahoma, but now living and working in New York – places the search for sensuality in the feminine at the center of her aesthetic research. Rebekah’s favorite subjects are young women grappling with the search for body awareness.
Women twisting between suspended questions, who with a languid glance at the viewer demand an answer, a signal. Shots covered with a subtle patina of melancholy, nostalgic, almost dreamy.
Still I Rise Poem by Maya Angelou
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may tread me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I’ll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don’t you take it awful hard
‘Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own back yard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I’ve got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
Rebekah Campbell
Rebekah Campbell is a director and photographer based in New York, currently creating work on femininity and the brink of youth hood. Her works explore the subject’s individuality as well as the effects of natural states while escalating the intimate narrative.
Credits:
Photography: Rebekah Cambpell
Styling: Kate Carnegie
Make-up: Ingeborg
Hair: Pasquale Ferrante
Casting: Margeaux
Photo assistants: Runze Yu, Alexandra Mc Cown, Christiane Söderbom
Styling: agency de fact
Hair assistant: Ginger Ryan
Production home agency models and talents: Aketch @Fusion, Alishanee Chafe-hermon, Sarah Vanessa, Isi Iyamah, Tomy, Kokie Childers, Sasha Melnychuck, Lida Fox, Veronika
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