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Rebecca Tillett is a young graphics student from Las Cruces, New Mexico. She is attending New Mexico State University studying digital graphics. Her passion is photography. She was born in 1982 to young parents who were both students. She literally grew up on the NMSU campus and for eleven years her entire world was that university neighborhood. As she moved into her adolescence, here family finally moved to a house and slow started to disintegrate. Her parents fought constantly and she discovered
self-mutilation.
Several tumultuous years followed: depression, estrangement, suicide attempts, and the self-inflicted death of her father. Rebecca dealt with the reality of her life by turning towards beauty and art. An interest in fashion led her to wanting to capture the beauty of runway models on film. The idea of physical perfection intrigued her and she searched the depths of her soul for inspiration. Her grandfather gave her a Canon EOS camera as a high school graduation gift and she clung to it, professing that she could now not live without it.
Many of our greatest art photographers have started from similar needs to express themselves, their desires, their fantasies, and their worldview. And Rebecca will undoubtedly be most interesting to watch as she develops her talent and channels her passion into her art works. |
