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Broken Home
http://rebeccatillett.com/broken-home/
“…my Broken Home series is a picture of what the owner might look like if they were still there and had knowingly let the house crumble in front of them. They, too, might be falling apart…trying to pick up the pieces, trying to stay together and whole, just as the house is struggling to do.”
© Rebecca Tillett
Only grace will remain
My cousin Cassie (a model in much of my work) has recently found the strength within her to confess…
Milk and Honey
by Rebecca Tillett, 2013
https://www.facebook.com/rtillettphoto
It’s paradise. It’s milk and honey.
It’s dolllars and cash. It’s all just money.
It’s sex and lust. It’s all a must.
It’s always fashionable. It’s always sunny.
Adele Arcadia, her skin is tingling..
and all her suitors are smoking. They’re mingling.
It’s paradise. It’s fucks and bones.
it’s sweet and shiny and pretty unknowns.
(I used to write something to accompany each of my series’…it kills me that I stopped doing this years ago. The photo was from my shoot earlier this month. The poem was written about 8 years ago.)
Every great once in a while, my camera and I collide with a model whose confidence and fearlessness know no apparent bounds, someone who isn’t afraid to look silly or stupid or even ridiculous on the gamble that we’ll create a great shot. I‘ve had the pleasure of photographing several amazing women with these bold qualities -and the added fortune of calling them my friends in most cases- in the last 12 years I’ve pursued this passion of mine. And Edie is one of them.
I’m not quite sure why but there’s something I truly love about this image. The pose and the expression on her face (despite the half-baked shiny silver shorts and hot pink heels) that make me stop and question the story this is telling, if any. Or it could just be me…If there’s anything I’ve learned over the years it’s that everyone sees something different in my photos and I think that’s awesome.
“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.” -Carl Sagan
Last month my husband and I took what I’m now dubbing the “Great Pacific Northwest Roadtrip” and had an amazing time. I’ve been trying to eloquently construct this blog post in my head since my return but there are really no words for the way this part of the country made me feel. There’s something mysterious and magnificent about the forests up there and I had a feeling of bittersweet sadness but a strong yearning despite it that I couldn’t shake. The ocean was beautiful, of course, but it always leaves me feeling a little cold and extremely lonely and I’ve never craved to be near it as so many others do. The desert is my home and where I’m most comfortable; warm wide open spaces and a clear 360 degree view of the landscape and the horizon and so I confess that being shrouded by so many gargantuan trees left me a little claustrophobic but the entire time it was something I was absolutely certain I could shake or learn to live with it if the opportunity to live up there ever presented itself. I could even become friendly with the ocean. My mom grew up with the ocean and she’s always longed to return. Sometimes I think some of those feelings should be hereditary..simply because the desire and passion for these beautiful pieces of our home, planet earth, are so strong and ingrained within us.
I wish there was a way to correctly translate to words what I saw and felt in this short 10 days but I can’t. All I can say is “GO.”
(The images above we’re taken at the Ladybird Johnson Grove at Redwood National Park. To see more images from my trip, visit my Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rtillett/)
(Source: rebeccatillett.com)
Pacific Northwest Roadtrip No. 202 on Flickr.
Pike Place Market, Seattle, August 2012
© Rebecca Tillett
(Source: Flickr / rtillett)
Pacific Northwest Roadtrip No. 146 on Flickr.
My husband took this picture of me at Redwood National Park.