Fiona Rakimov
It’s Quiet Here 
Edition 1/3 
16 x 20 inch 
 
Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art 
 
$145 AUD 
Includes GST & postage within Australia 
 
Bio
Fiona Rakimov is Boorloo based and works across film, digital and alternative process photography. Having first learnt the art of dark room photography in high school, Fiona completed a BA Arts Design Photography Hons at Curtin in 2005. Throughout a career in the Arts with small and large scale International Arts Festivals on both east and west coasts of Australia, her personal photographic practice remains a constant. She is now in secondary education where she is teaching across digital, film/darkroom and alternative process photography to the next generation. 
Fiona categorises her work loosely as ‘fictionalised portraits’ where she photographs whoever is closest and is spontaneously inspired by domestic or ordinary objects and locations. These become the fertile ground for imagined realities where characters are constructed from equal parts fact and fiction. Armed with an imagination that has definitely not faded with age, there is a perpetual blending of photographic genres. From documentary, fashion to vernacular and more. Her work is created amidst the daily chaos as opposed to separate from. Photography is an every-day process based form of self-expression that brings continual joy, satisfaction, frustration and wonder.
 
Statement 
This frame is from a whole roll double exposure film taken over the last year and printed by hand in my darkroom. 
 
A year of great personal challenge and transformation, it has accidentally captured a 'before' and 'after' of this transformation, only visible to me.
 
This work reminds me that change can also be small and invisible to others. It can be quiet and fleeting, yet deeply impactful.