Rachel began photography while completing her undergraduate degree at Skidmore College, graduating in 2005. Her work has been included in numerous exhibitions, and has been printed in American Photo, B&W Magazine, COLOR magazine, Black & white UK Magazine, Diffusion Magazine and LensWork. In 2010, her series Field Notes was included in Photolucida's Critical Mass Top 50. She was an Artist-in-Residence at RayKo Photo Center in summer 2013.
In recent years, Rachel has collaborated with photographers Dorothy Gantenbein and Robert Kato to develop—and eventually teach—hybrid photographic techniques combining historical processes and new technologies that push the boundaries of how a photograph can be made and defined.
Rachel lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, and in addition to art, she works from an 8x15 foot office built on a flatbed trailer teaching dyslexic and homeschooled children.
In an exploration of time, history and personality, From Time to Time includes work made by Rachel Phillips as herself, as well as the work of her two alter-egos: Madge Cameron and Frances Pane. From Time to Time is her second solo show at Catherine Couturier Gallery.
© Rachel Phillips - Footsteps
In Phillips' series Divinations, she transfers imagery to original cabinets cards-mounted albumen portraits from the late 1800s. The series is largely about re-incarnating the people in the photographs by reconsidering them, employing the "crystal ball" to look back rather than forward.
© Rachel Phillips - Raindrop
Fixed is the work of Phillips' invented character Madge Cameron. An elderly archivist, one day Cameron accidentally moved a photo she was digitizing, resulting in a str...