RAIN- YOU SEE TRANSGENDER, I SEE SPIRIT

• Photographer
  PAULA RAE GIBSON . Born in London, Paula Rae Gibson took up photography in her early 20's.She is self taught, leaning mainly on analogue and darkroom work. BOOKS PUBLISHED DIARY OF A LOVE ADDICT KEHRER 2005 I'LL ALWAYS WALK AWAY KEHRER 2007 YOU GATHER MY DARKNESS LIKE SNOW WATCH IT MELT ,NOVELLA WITH PHOTOS, BABEL 2011 RAE EYEMAZING EDITIONS. 2016 SOLO EXHIBITIONS ADAM PRIDEAUX CORK STREET LONDON 1998 SERENA MORTON , LONDON 1999 Laurie Frank's Media Rare Gallery LOS ANGELES 2001 Paul Kopeikin Gallery LOS ANGELES 2001 Stephanie Hoppen London 2007 ROLLO LONDON 2008 Someone's Garden Tokyo 2009 GROUP SHOWS Fotographie Frankfurt Forum,how to hang a book 2006 Fermentino foto festival 2015 RAYKO PHOTO CENTER SAN FRANCISCO 2015 ROYAL PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY BATH, 2015 See.Me Digital Display at The Louvre in Paris, France (July 13, 2015 Private Event) Black & White Collection PH21 gallery Budapest,2016 LOOSEN ART EXHIBITION 2016 Brighton Fringe Group Show Summer 2016 F STOP MAGAZINE, BODY AND HAPPY ACCIDENTS 2016 DARKROOM GALLERY ,HAUNTED 2016 Month of Photography Los Angeles Group Show ,Lucie Foundation 2017 OXYGEN | Bogotá 2017 International Experimental Video and Performance Art Festival January 03-10, 2017.LIKE I LOVE, short film on actors talking about their love lives and and PUT AN END, images set to music. Solo Exhibition competition , December 2016 PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.Honorable mention-Heart Off The Hook Feminine / Masculine Exhibition, Honourable Mention, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary. 12 Jan - 7 Feb 2017 Group Show Portraits, Blank Wall Space , Athens.4 feb-17 2017 AWARDS Best eleven self-portrait series, "You and Your Selfies", Lensculture, 2014 Honorary award, Moscow Foto Awards, "Destination Love", 2014 Honorary award, Julia Margaret Cameron prize for Children, Portrait and Fine Art category 2015 Honorary award,LA curator Secrets and Mysteries,2016 Melbourne Photo Award finalist, "Late Husband", 2016 nominated by Rogar Ballen Black and White Spider Award ,Fine Art Category 2016 Honorary mention. 2016/2 SOLO competition at PH21 GalleryHonourable mention, United Kingdom
• Website
  https://www.paularaegibson.com
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I almost don't want to tell you that Rain is a transgender girl, aged
14. I prefer to concentrate on the fact she is happy in her own
skin, kind, curious, open authentic. I used flowers in my prints and
light to achieve something that speaks about letting people
blossom, be themselves...be who they are born to be

Born in London, Paula Rae Gibson took up photography in her early 20's.She is self taught, leaning mainly on analogue and darkroom work.

Awards GROUP SHOWS

Fotographie Frankfurt Forum,how to hang a book 2006
Fermentino foto festival 2015
RAYKO PHOTO CENTER SAN FRANCISCO 2015
ROYAL PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY BATH, 2015
See.Me Digital Display at The Louvre in Paris, France (July 13, 2015 Private Event)
PH21 gallery Budapest,2016
LOOSEN ART EXHIBITION 2016
Brighton Fringe Group Show Summer 2016
F STOP MAGAZINE, BODY AND HAPPY ACCIDENTS 2016
DARKROOM GALLERY ,HAUNTED 2016
PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary .Solo Exhibition competition, December 2016 .
Honorable mention-Heart Off The Hook.

Month of Photography Los Angeles Group Show ,Lucie Foundation 2017
OXYGEN | Bogotá 2017 International Experimental Video and Performance Art Festival January
PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.Feminine / Masculine Exhibition, Honourable Mention,
Jan-Feb 2017
Group Show Portraits, Blank Wall Space , Athens.4 Feb-17 2017
Beyond the Selfie , SE Centre of Photography. Feb 2017
NYC4PA group show at Jadite Galley April 2017
PHOTOPLACE GALLERY ,Alternative processes exhibition ,DAn BUrkholder juror,April 2017
PH21 Gallery group show SCapes, April 2017
Float zine group show HOME April 2017
Patagonia PHoto festival April 13-17 2017
Viewpoint gallery,Halifax, Nova Scotia, image Hope shown, August 2017
In Response, The Center for Fine Art Photography, November, 'Happy in her own skin' photograph of trans girl , aged 14.
The Face exhibition Darkroom Gallery, Juror Catherine Just
The Center for Fine Art Photography,juror Catherine Couturier,black and white awards, image SENT.2018
Barcelona international photography award.2018
The art of living photography show, curator David Garrick, month of photography San Francisco
Julia Margaret Cameron 11th EDITION , 5th biennial of fine art photography , Barcelona October 2018.10 photographs to be shown, honourable mention.
Der Greif curator Italian Vogue editor Alessia Glaviano, from series Nearest Dearest.
Month of Photography Denver, PRG exhibits with IWI Collective, curatored by Mark Sink.Feb