Photography

The serious and the frivilous

Reneé is a fairly serious hobbyist of photography, focusing on urban decay, architecture and cityscapes, nature, and the occasional human. 

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“Heartache ends Heartache ends Heartache ends And begins again”
“We sing of what we think we know Mother, father, skin and flowers And we move just like the bird Moving amidst the other birds”
“When the last light warms the rocks and the rattlesnakes unfold”
“I fell down to the thorny brush and felt the trembling hands”
“I came walking with the wind to watch the cactus bloom”
“Give me something”
“Falling down broke, only one hope That you make it”
“Through the ruins, trying to save it 'For I fall out, show me somehow I can make it
“Give me something Search the past for redemption”
“I am human and I need to be loved Just like everybody else does”
“See I've already waited too long And all my hope is gone”

Walk the Line

The summer of 2008, Reneé launched portrait project of mixed-race people and families, seeking faces of people not represented in wider media. Visit the Walk the Line project on her Flickr page.

Reneé explains: "I worked with people who were racial Rorschach tests, people who sometimes negotiated multiple cultures. Sometimes they were people who had privilege to be solidly in one culture and sometimes they were people who had the privilege to jump between cultures. Either way, every day, the people I worked with had experiences similar to mine: walking the line between cultures and races. Sometimes that's a hard walk. And sometimes, as I photographed all these amazing people, I saw just how much it can be a beautiful place, too." 

  • “I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song.”

    ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rainer Maria Rilke's the Book of Hours: A New Translation with Commentary