Rebecca Tun

Rebecca Imogen Tun Fashionart and Lifeart Photography

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“Photography has increased my awareness.”
- Andreas Carl

Otherwise known as Rebecca Tun the model, I’m also a small-time GWC – that is, a girl with a camera. I like to create strongly stylized pictures with a distinctive mood and genre.

Actually, I’m not exactly a photographer as that probably entails understanding how cameras work – I’m an artist who uses a camera and a computer to make pictures.

I guess my portfolio will tell you about my style and methods, but I like to be able to put things into words as well:

I’ve become used to categorizing my work into ‘Fashionart’ and ‘Lifeart’ but these aren’t mutually exclusive or sufficient any more. So, more loosely: my work is about the body, beauty, personality, emotion, storytelling, imagination, moods, the physical quality of things, and most of all style…which I guess is most generally charisma, and more restrictedly the presentations of fashion.

I started taking photos in Summer ‘09, with portraits of my beautiful siblings. They continue to be my long-term muses whom I regularly kidnap, dressing them up in implausible outfits or just following them around with the camera. I love the magic and raw emotion of the ’reluctant subject’.

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But then of course there is the other half of my photography, my work with professional or aspiring models. These shoots tend to be (roughly) planned and conceptualized beforehand, and I’ll often enlist the help of a make-up artist and use a studio.

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Some of my favourite artists are Luis Royo, Sally Mann, David Hamilton, Jock Sturges, Sarah Moon, Wendy Bevan, Ellen von Unwerth, Paulo Roversi, Serge Lutens, Annie Leibovitz, Mario Testino, Edward Steichen, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Chema Madoz. The list will expand; watch this space.

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Links to some publications and mentions

- Ivory Underworld: Cupid’s Arrow

- A tale of Bink: Rebecca Imogen Tun – Model turned photographer awesome lady
- NSFW and Cool: “Meet Rebecca Imogen Tun the amazing”
- ZINE Magazine Lent Term 2010 (supplement to The Cambridge Student)
- Ella-Rose: The Story, Rebecca Imogen Tun
- Roswell Ivory: The life of a UK writer and model, A shoot in Cambridge
- Touched By Fire: Reimagining the World, Winner of the Fire in the Eyes Challenge
- Touched By Fire: Reimagining the World, Rebecca Tun – our newest blogger and co-host
- Gestalta: hopelessly unfocused words, Rebecca Tun…
- Redbubble group ‘Tease me baby!’: interview with Rebecca Tun