say my name, and every color illuminates

by Rachel Lynch

you’ve got me waiting on the edge of the world. wine-filled mondays, my head on your chest. i search in you for the feelings i can’t get anywhere else. maybe that makes me selfish, maybe that makes me wild.

we spent the night painting on the floor, making love, chain-smoking, drinking wine and eating pasta. if every day was this dreamy, it wouldn’t matter. but if my life is a film someday, i hope this night is a scene with a thousand smokey lights. i was so content to watch you take drags from your cigarette and ponder. your denim and your long-hair. i can’t remember the last time i looked at someone the way i look at you.

i put our love on display that night, maybe i should of kept it to myself. i suppose i just wanted to share how i feel, i hope everyone has the pleasure of feeling this way someday.

xx

lingerie by agent provocateur

photos graeme dempsey

bali, java and singapore

by Rachel Lynch

All the photos from my trip to Bali, Java and Singapore shot on 35mm film. We used two different film cameras- a contaxt t3 and a lecia mp. We used a variety of film stock including- cine still 800t, kodak 200, portra 400, provia 100f, ilford delta 400, cine still bwxx, and black and white berlin lomography film.

I hope you guys enjoyed all the visuals. I had a fun time slowly releasing this body of work. As an artist, I’m never truly satisfied, and feel like I could of done better. But I am proud of myself for waiting the entire trip to post a photo. Taking the film on six different flights between stops, and back home to new york to be processed kind of scared me, but I was glad that I kept my patience in a world that is so immediate. And I came to realize that if all of it got ruined, that was ok. I could be content with experience sans show off. I think there’s value in waiting and really working towards an end product. I knew that digital or phone photos were not going to convey the story of my trip in the way I wanted. I see the world in a very romantic light, most of the time, I am the lead character in my own movie. I think most people should live like that, with a little magic.

As a lot of you know, I haven’t posted a digital photo since march 2019. It’s been a journey, but mostly a love affair. I’ve fallen in love with telling my story via analogue. I’ve used film since I was sixteen, but always on the side, never the main conveyor of my story. I can hardly wait to start unfolding new visuals in 2020. I promise to bring the magic like never before.

all my love,

rachel