Young Talents x Marset
A project of Rebecca Scheinberg with the Bolita lamp
Interviewed by Simone Rossi
Inspired by the perfect feminine shape, photographer Rebecca Scheinberg created a play of tension between the object and the human body. The Bolita lamp by kaschkasch evokes a feeling of playful tangibility. Indicating the digital era’s lack of human touch, the lamp invites you to interact and move the magical ball around its base to dim the light. Rebecca aimed to capture this concept in her photographic series.
Using the female form, pressing her soft limbs against the light, Rebecca creates a delicate dialogue between figure and lamp, a beautiful visual balance between movement and stillness, where the intensity of the light seems organic – rather than electronic.
“I was inspired by the lamp itself, the perfect form and deep femininity. It became a play
between the qualities of strength and softness, movement with stillness”.
Rebecca Scheinberg is an Australia-born, London-based photographer whose work spans still life, documentary, fashion and portraiture. Her choice of subject matter is broad and ever-evolving, but her photographs – whether a dynamic shot of a woman in motion, or a pristine editorial image of a luxury timepiece – are always characterised by sensuality and a sensitive application of light.
Scheinberg trained as a classical dancer, going on to work with Batsheva Ensemble – an influence which manifests in her work through an enduring focus on the human body. Through her lens, the physical form becomes by turns tender, powerful, miraculous and ordinary. In particular, she explores gesture, injecting emotional resonance into the crook of a wrist or the arch of an ankle as though she were a choreographer, locating narrative in the subtlety of a subject’s movements.
Scheinberg’s editorial clients include Wallpaper*, Port Magazine, Odiseo, Bloomberg and The Sunday Telegraph. She was selected for British Journal of Photography 2015 and exhibited in Fresh Faced and Wild Eyed at The Photographers’ Gallery.