Sirens

Overview

Rachael Talibart's photographs express her love of all things coastal. Working very much in the tradition of the "sublime" in art, while also deliberately eschewing location-based landscape photography, Rachael seeks in her stark yet intimate compositions to convey the awe and exhilaration of being confronted by the ocean in its most tempestuous moods. This is nowhere more evident than in the photographs from her critically acclaimed Sirens series, which documents monstrous waves named after mythological beings. Although these strange, sometimes frightening wave-forms were all captured during the storms that pounded the south coast in 2016 and 2017, the images are intended to transcend time and space, to expand our experience of the ocean, and make us see the natural world in a new light.

Author Biography

Rachael Talibart is a photographer who retains a special fondness for capturing the wild, stormy atmosphere in the South of England. Rachael's photographs have been published in books and both print and online magazines, have been exhibited widely in the UK as well as Barcelona and New York, and have appeared in private collections in the UK and USA. She is owner of f11 Workshops and runs residential photography workshops for international, fine art photography business, Ocean Capture. Rachael is in demand as a public speaker and writes for a variety of photography magazines. She is a member of Parhelion Group and won numerous awards, including Black and White Photographer of the Year 2018 Classic View winner, Landscape Photographer of the Year 2017, and Sunday Times Magazine Landscape Photographer of the Year, 2016.