What happens when an emerging fine art photographer who started as a self portrait artist decides she wants to rent a house in German Village (an historic section of Columbus, Ohio), transform its rooms into spaces for constructed scenes, hire a model, and utilize symbolic objects to create a visual narrative? She starts a Kickstarter Campaign in the hopes she can make it all a reality.
“The Kickstarter Project is my chance to bring this series to life,” says Angie Rucker, Award Winning Constructed Image Photographer. “Raising $5,500 in less than 30 days is a challenging task, but necessary in order to pay for the house, model, and all the items needed for props to create this series. As an emerging artist, it is often difficult to fund a large project in order to compile a body of work to submit for grant applications, gallery representation, residencies, etc. I have a body of work but if I want to progress, it’s time to go bigger or go home.”
Kickstarter campaigns operate under an “all-or-nothing” funding model so if the project doesn’t reach its goal on July 27th, it will not get funded.
“With this project, I want to create a photo series that tells the story of a failed relationship photographed entirely as staged scenes in the transformed rooms of an old house, ultimately creating monochromatic, surreal, dreamlike images, utilizing heavily symbolic objects including synthetic, organic, and hand-made. My intention is to cause the viewer to question the meaning of each photo and what the items within it might represent. I am curious about the reasons why relationships fail and what those stages might look like. How couples love one another, how that love decays, and how that decay touches all those around them.”
A few of the more creative rewards in Rucker’s Campaign is a chance to attend and help out for a day on a shoot, or the opportunity to collaborate with her to come up with your own idea for a scene which she will create and photograph, providing a final print of that image specifically for you.
Rucker’s work has been shown in multiple juried exhibitions across the United States from New York to Colorado including The Southeast Center for Photography in Greenville, SC, and The Amblewood Gallery in Atlanta, GA. Her awards include First Place at The Saville Gallery’s Annual Photographic Competition in Maryland, where her image Someone New was chosen by Juror Kenneth Garrett, Photographer for National Geographic Magazine and The Director’s Award for the Flight Exhibit at the Photoplace Gallery in Vermont.
To check out Rucker’s Kickstarter Campaign, Click Here or to see more of her work visit her website at www.angierucker.com. To track her progress further, follow her on her WordPress Blog and Facebook Page, and make sure to spread the word to your social media networks. Her campaign ends at 1PM on July 27th.
