uncommons

There’s a certain essence of raw finesse in Rebecca Rijsdijk’s collection, Plant People, on display at I Heart Photograph and her website portfolio. It seems in an industry deluged with heavy post-production and complex setups, Rebecca’s photographs have a staggeringly simple attention to form, content, and lighting. Her collection concept “my branches are not what they used to be” has a strong, symbolic, and personal feel represented in the images of intertwined humanity and nature. It seems as if Rebecca peeled away the layers of complexity and broke it down into the simplest denominator. It gives a certain child-like joy to browse these photographs. They may not speak to everyone directly, but they encapsulate that simple art of photographic study that we all practice. Imagine a shoot with no predetermined concepts, no meetings, no art direction, no editors — just you, your subject, your concept, your camera, and your lust to make tangible an idea that sprang forth from the creative well — that’s what I see analyzing this collection. If it’s the beauty and sophistication of simple photography that allures you, then check out more of Rebecca’s work on her website, and be sure to take an extra long contemplative work at her other collection, stiletto paradoxes.

Rebecca Rijsdijk’s Plant People, photographs copyright Rebecca Rijsdijk, used with permission.