Anne Rearick's humanist vision is documentary in nature, but also uniquely personal. In all of her work, Rearick endeavors to portray and celebrate the full range of day-to-day experience of her subjects. Rearick works over time, often photographing over the course of years, and in doing so creates lasting bonds with people and place. In many respects, Anne Rearick stands with her subjects instead of in front of them.
Anne is the recipient of numerous grants, fellowships and awards, notably a Guggenheim fellowship, a Parkhill Grant, the French Roger Pic Prize, the Mosaique Prize in Luxembourg, a Fulbright/Annette Kade fellowship and two New England Foundation for the Arts/Mass Cultural Council grants. Rearick received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Massachusetts College of Art and has worked as an educator and artist for the past 30 years.
Rearick has published over seven monographs and her work appears in numerous international catalogs of photography. Her most recent monograph, entitled, Gure Bazterrak, represents 34 years of photographing in the French Basque Country. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, Centre Nationale de L’Audiovisuel in Luxembourg and the A Foundation in Brussels, are among the many public collections that hold Rearick's photographs.
In 2014, the French documentary Jean Dieuzade, Regards en Partage, an homage to photographer Jean Dieuzade and exploration of humanist photography, features Rearick as one of three contemporary photographers working in the documentary tradition. Terrence Malick's documentary The Voyage of Time includes video footage that Rearick shot on location in South Africa and in the Basque Country. Additionally, Rearick's photos of Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev as a young boxer, were used in the recent HBO documentary Marathon: The Patriots Day Bombing.
Anne Rearick is represented by Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière, Paris since 2016 and a member of Agence VU, Paris, since 1993.
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
2002
Dorothea Lange / Paul Taylor Prize, Honorable Mention
1998
Mosaique Programme, Centre National de L'Audiovisuel, Luxembourg. Granted in support of Rearick's work documenting rural life in Scotland, Italy, and Spain.
1997
Somerville Arts Council Grant
1995
New England Foundation for the Arts/ Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellowship
1995
St. Botolph's Club Foundation Grant
1993
Somerville Arts Council Grant
1993
Janet Wu Grant
1992
Blanche E. Colman Award
1990–1991
Fulbright Fellowship
1990
Somerville Arts Council Grant
2022
Parkhill Foundation Grant to study Chilean Cinema
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