"If I don't take photos of it, I won't discuss it." - Rhiann Tintor, 2018.

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Tintor is a digital photographer, who shoots mainly in black and white. She works across documentary image-making, the nude, and social commentary.  

 

Based on her own thoughts and experiences with assault, Tintor engages the audience with tonal photographs that lure the eye to the emotion of life and the toll it takes on the body.

 

With the use of a 50mm lens, Tintor uses the lines of the body to explore the story of a person’s life to bring a narrative to each piece. The series in current works is using natural environments to form honest portraits of the nude body to ensure the details are shown – from bruises to cuts. In her practice, Tintor plans to show the rebuilding of a person and the beauty of the bare skin.

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 Discussing her recent series, Tintor states: "Tracing the lines and details of the body, I created up close and intimate photographs that show the most private aspects of a person’s body and the way in which they link to everyday life. To add to this, the hidden context of how they are impacted during an encounter that provokes the viewer to think about how any part of the body can be damaged by such an event. Using close-up and cropped angles, the photos show how the body is connected through lines and limbs to work as a unit. By using the colour scheme of black and white, I finally started to feel a connection with my work that built up over the conduction of creating the series.  I engaged myself fully into the work by using myself as the subject and embodied the feelings that were expressed by those who had written the pieces. I played with idea of text but avoided this as I didn’t want the images to be too much and needed them to shine naturally.  "