about me
Rebecca Webb, BFA from Tufts University. Her expertise is in fine art photography and film production, having studied with photographers Sage Sohier, Peter Laytin and Shelby Lee Adams while doing graduate work at Harvard University. Her work is exhibited in galleries in Boston, New York City and various museums nation-wide. By day, Rebecca is the ArtPower! Film Curator at UC San Diego..
photography history
The Loft @UCSD, La Jolla CA - Celebrating Everybody2009•
Cooper Union, NYC - Indwelling (photography show juried by Joyce Tenneson) 2007•
Photographic Resource Center, MA - Photo Slam. Award winning photo series 2007.•
Media 2 Politic - Internet research on photo biases. http://www.media2politic.com 2006•
Griffin Museum of Photography, MA -12th Annual Photo Show (juried by Bonnie Benrubi) 2006•
South Shore Art Center, MA - Photography Now! Honorable mention 2005•
Franciscan Children's Hospital, MA - Group show and benefit (donated painting) 2003•
Barrett Art Center, NY - Photoworks ‘03'•
Cambridge Art Association, MA - Passion photography juried show 2003•
Stand Up for Kids, MA - Benefit (donated photographs) 2002•
1000 Faces - Traveling exhibit about responses to 9/11 (submitted photograph) 2002•
Bakehouse Miami - Regular exhibitor (painting) 1991-93.
teaching
UCSD Extension School, Fall 2009: The Environmental Portrait
In environmental portraiture, the surrounding background is used to convey crucial information about a subject's personality, interests, and lifestyle. This course is designed to encourage the intermediate photographer to examine and create environmental portraits. Our approach will focus on fictional storytelling and/or reality-based portraiture--in other words, your backdrops need not be strictly factual. Each week, we will discuss assigned readings, study the work of contemporary portrait photographers, and engage in constructive class critiques of our weekly assignments.
commissioned work
Product shots for Harvard University Fair Trade research project. 2007•
Photo portraits of homeless women and children for PRA/COMPASS. 2004-2007•
Photo portrait of director. WCFIA, Harvard University (included in “Director’s Hall of Fame”) 2003•
Documentary photographs for the Arlington Advocate. 2003•
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Curated photography acquisitions,
Harvard University. 2003•
film production experience
Director/Producer/Editor
Documentary: Archigram: The Amazing Adventures of Architecture during the age of Pop (In production)•
Director/Producer Behind the Scenes with David LaChapelle. Interview Magazine (Footage aired on Access Hollywood) 1999•
Assistant Producer
William Klein Documentary: The Messiah, Lighthouse USA. NY, NY. 1998•
Post Production Supervisor/Assistant Editor
Documentary: Five Wives, Three Secretaries, and Me, Asset Pictures. NY, NY. 1997-98•
Assistant Editor
Feature Film: Pi, Palestrini Productions. NY, NY. 1996-97•
Assistant Editor
News Series: Imaging America. Channel 13. NY, NY. 1997•
Education Harvard University. Visual, Environmental and Museum Studies, Cambridge, MA. 2002-05• New York University. Steiner School of Art Education. NY, NY, and Venice, Italy.1993-94• Tufts University/The Museum School. Boston, MA. Painting and Printmaking, BFA. 1985-1990•
If you would like to own a riverwebbpicture photograph, please contact me for dimensions and prices. Some images are in a set of limited editions.