Sesame Ellis | Daily Life Photo Blogging with Rachel Devine
Rachel Devine combines a phenomenal photographic eye with a savvy photojournalist’s instinct for capturing life’s magic moments. Her surrealistic image of a white cow on a sand beach in Ireland with “tropical” blue water in the background has become a cult classic, generating over 200,000 hits on the Flickr.com website where it’s posted. But it is her signature pictures of children that have established her as a top up-and-coming pro whose images are eagerly sought by leading advertisers, ad agencies, and magazines. Devine has an uncanny ability to convey what it actually feels like to experience the world as a child, and that’s why her images of children
have a unique freshness and vitality, a heartfelt and emotional authenticity.

“My father was a photo enthusiast,” says Devine, “and like him, I’m a passionate self-taught photographer. I was in college in the ‘90s when I bought my first Nikon SLR, an FM2. Later, when studying in Iceland, I had a show of my work at The New Living Arts Center, an event that motivated me to take my passion to a new level. Not long afterwards, I created a website, www.racheldevine.com, a move that really paid off. That’s where Target saw my images of children, was impressed with their spontaneity and use of lighting, and gave me a plum assignment to shoot advertising pictures for their Classic Pooh line of children’s clothing. My career seemed to be taking off, but a week and a half later I gave birth to my daughter Gemma, and my world, and career, took several unexpected turns!” >>>read more about photographer Rachel Devine