Rosie Brock was born in Charleston, South Carolina and raised in both Gulf Coast Florida and Virginia. She is currently based in Manhattan, New York where she is completing her final year of the BFA Photography and Video Program at the School of Visual Arts.
About ‘And Ever Shall Be‘:
In And Ever Shall Be , photographer Rosie Brock explores the contemporary cultural atmosphere of the American South. Inspired by her own childhood experiences growing up in Gulf Coast Florida and Southern Gothic literature, Brock’s photographs focus on the nuanced relationship between the region’s deep-seated mythicism and its current socioeconomic reality. Comprised of intimate portraits and empty landscapes,
And Ever Shall Be functions as visual documentation tinged with a slight haze of fantasy. Created over the course of two consecutive summers, the series depicts an environment bathed in oppressive July humidity, steeped in the past, and languidly progressing in time. Saturated primary colors, hazy late afternoon light, and the verdant hues of summer form these photographs, which ultimately evoke a vaguely melancholic tone, punctuated with notes of hopefulness.
