Anchored in documentary tradition, Anne Rearick’s photography is distinguished by its deeply personal nature. Her long-term engagement, often spanning years in a single community, enables her to create genuine connections to place and people. Rather than standing in front of her subjects, Rearick stands with them.
Anne Rearick is the recipient of numerous awards, grants, and fellowships, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fulbright/Annette Kade Fellowship, Luxembourg's Mosaique Prize, France's Prix Roger Pic, and a Parkhill Grant, as well as two grants from the Mass Cultural Council / New England Foundation for the Arts. She holds an MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and has worked as an educator and practicing artist for over three decades.
Rearick has published seven monographs, and her photography is featured in numerous international collections. Her most recent book, Gure Bazterrak, represents thirty-four years of photographing in the French Basque Country. Her photographs are held in major public collections worldwide, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, the Centre National de l'Audiovisuel in Luxembourg, and the Fondation A in Brussels.
In 2014, Rearick was featured as one of three contemporary artists in the French documentary film Jean Dieuzade, Regards en Partage, an exploration of humanist photography. Her work also extends to cinema: American director Terrence Malick included footage that Rearick shot in South Africa and the Basque Country in poetic non-narrative film The Voyage of Time, and her photographs of Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev as a young boxer were prominently featured in HBO's Marathon: The Patriots Day Bombing.
Anne Rearick has been represented by Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière, Paris since 2016.
In many respects I have been making pictures my entire life, although I didn't own a camera until I was 25 years old. My first image was of my grandmother, tall, standing in front of a blossoming lilac bush, when I was five. I blinked and there it was and still is, an image wholly intact which gives me strength and solace. I found, at five, a measure of power in this act of image-making, a way of holding on, of parsing what matters, of creating a placemark for all that the image signifies.
AWARDS
2023
Artist in Residence, Clermont Ferrand.
2022
Parkhill Foundation Grant to study Chilean Cinema from time of the Pinochet regime to the present.
2021
Artist in Residence, Les Champs Des Impossibles Le Perche, France
Mass Cultural Council COVID-19 Relief Fund for Individuals Program
2016-2017
Artist in Residence, ImageSingulière, Sète, France
2016
Finalist for Township, Prix Nadar, Paris
2015
LensCulture Portrait Award, Juror's Pick, South African portfolio selected by Paula Tognarelli, curator of the Griffin Museum.
2014
Prix Roger Pic selected by a jury of Société civile des auteurs multimédia,
Philippe Rochot article about jurying the prize.
2013
John Anson Kittredge Fund to assist in the prepress work on Rearick's South Africa monograph.
2007
Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship, General Artist Grant
2003-2004
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography to explore the culture of amateur boxing in the US, Kazakhstan, and South Africa.
2003
Somerville Arts Council Grant, General Artist Grant