Profile: Awe and The Odyssey with Rachael Talibart

‘White Cliffs’ ISO 100, 200mm, f/13, 30”
Occasionally, photography has a way of reaching into our collective psyche and ringing a bell, creating a sound both nostalgic and numinous. We often attempt to plaster meaning onto this work and are moved to ruminate internally. Sometimes the creator has an articulated appreciation themselves for the qualities churning the waters of creativity. More powerful still, is when the artist draws energy from our collective tales and nods to this while offering work which reaches back to our pre-civilizational tethers. She is the kind of photographer making imagery which maps onto our very DNA; weaving into our childhood wonder, and awakening it. Rachael Talibart fits this profile, doing so with a most romantic vision. 
JR: Clearly, something more expansive than the immediate subject or objects which you shoot is at play in your work. You’ve written about myth, and your process seems to blend the elemental with some human narrative. I see a real explor...