Brooklyn, New York | Mentor: Bryan Schutmaat
Rosemary Haynes is an artist working in analog photography and darkroom methods to explore between the technical and the emotive. Formally trained as a Gelatin Silver printer, Haynes uses the camera to create staged portraits, environmental images and diaristic maps. Exploring the medium’s bounds her work is both collaborative and reflexive on the photographic process.
Exhibition history includes Justine Kurland Studio, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Soft Serve Projects, and Arcanite Pictures. She is a co-founder of Rubylith Darkroom, was included in Cultured Magazine’s 2024 Young Photographer’s List, and is a candidate for the Yale MFA in Photography class of 2027.
“During the PhotoWork Junior Fellowship, I was able to further understand the patterns in my work, and identify specific subjects to further illustrate the themes I am interested in exploring. It helped me to build a network of photographic peers outside of my immediate geography, which I greatly enjoyed.”
-Rosemary Haynes | 2025 Junior Fellow
Project Statement
In photographing those close to me I aim to visualize a web of connection. Traversing between constructed and diaristic modes of production my images of friends, family and the environments surrounding us access portals to grief and belonging. Imaginary structures aid in accessing this cosmology of closeness. Performance and my own intervening within the work are a self-referential approach to photography’s post-documentary tradition. In visualizing a relationship between camera, subject and photographer I seek to make visible, and complicate, the relationship I share with both.
2025 Junior Fellows: Walker Bankson | Sam Gulliver | Rosemary Haynes | Jasmine Huang | Jess Rhodes | Lawren Simmons