Rebecca Wickham
ma Photojournalism & documentary photography
London College of Communication UAL
Specialisms: Photography / Fine Art / Sculpture
Location: Sydney, Australia
Rebecca Wickham
First Name: Rebecca
Last Name: Wickham
Specialisms: Photography / Fine Art / Sculpture
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My Location: Sydney, Australia
University / College: London College of Communication UAL
Course / Program Title: ma Photojournalism & documentary photography
About
An Australian early-career photographer, Rebecca has recently graduated from London College of Communication with an MA (Distinction) in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography. Her research-based practice sits between photography and other mediums, with work concerning the climate crisis and our relationship with the earth. Primarily focused on landscape, she is interested in the materiality of place, often working directly with the environment to bring a record of its history and physicality into the work.
How do we mourn for more-than-human deaths? ‘Once Was’ depicts the hollow land left behind when glaciers melt, and the grief and guilt that coalesces in the bare earth revealed by their erasure. Images recording sites of glacier loss sit alongside a series of death masks, made with the rocks, earth and meltwater collected from each site, and cast from a mould of the artist’s own face. A memorial photograph pre-photography, the death mask acts as an object of grief and remembrance, the haunting of a presence no longer there. Here, it ties our fate together with that of our glaciers. These images speak to our entanglement with, and responsibility for, these sites of loss, an elegy and prophecy both.
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