Rachel Punturiero is a contemporary art photographer born in Takapuna, New Zealand. She is currently living and working between Auckland and the Bay of Plenty.
In all Punturiero’s photos there is a kind
of ambience that is quiet, mysterious,
and full of drama.
Using slow shutter speeds, she takes advantage of
motion blur to abstract images and evoke response in
the viewer’s emotions.
Begin exploring:
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I. STAY SOFT
II. BITTERSWEET
III. CAN(N)IBAL
IV. IN WATER
V. OAIA
Current and Upcoming
Self-portrait, 2017.
Rachel Punturiero was born in Takapuna, in the North Island of New Zealand. She discovered photography as a child, ritually poring over her grandfather’s hand-made photo album from his time in the West African Frontier. For her 13th birthday, she was gifted a film-based point-and-shoot and began quietly teaching herself the craft.
Her practice, characterised by its accidental nature, is the result of personal perception juxtaposed with an experimental approach to the study of time and motion. Punturiero is interested in communicating her experience by evoking an emotive response in the viewer. By exposing the mundane, overlaid with Punturiero’s unmistakable atmosphere, she challenges the very paradigms that have shaped her, and offers insight into the ever present phenomenon of co-existing planes of reality.
Rachel Punturiero
rachelpunturiero@gmail.com
© 2023
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