The people portrayed here suffer from eating disorders of varying nature and were undergoing treatment at a center specialized in this field.
For this essay I returned to the treatment center where I myself was a patient seven years ago.
The choice of location and personal portrayal was left entirely up to those portrayed.
People suffering from eating disorders tend to reduce themselves to the physical, thus I chose not to follow suit and distanced myself from portraying the physically exreme. Faces, emotions and actions reveal considerably more than protruding hip bones or colossal proportions. It was essential for me to show that regardless of the type of eating disorder involved, the body is in the end a symptom, and that the origin is to be found in the mind of the afflicted.
REBECCA SAMPSON
Born 1984, G�¶ttingen, Germany
2005-2006
School of Photography, Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin
2006-2009 Ostkreuzschule � School of Photography and Design, Berlin
2009
Final project �AUSSEHNSUCHT� supervised by Prof. Ute Mahler
Exhibitions
2011
�gute aussichten � young german photography 2010/2011�,
-Haus der Photographie, Deichtorhallen,Hamburg,
Germany
-vhs photogalerie, Stuttgart, Germany
-Goethe Institut, Washington D.C., USA
2010
â��The Promised City / Gl�¼ckssucherâ��
-Willy-Brandt-Haus , Berlin, Germany
-Centrum D z ialan T w �³r c z y c h 1500 m2, Warschau, Poland
-Piramal Gallery (NCPA), Mumbai, India
�AUSSEHNSUCHT�
â��Born to be wild?â��, Mus�©e d'Histoire de la Ville de Luxembourg
Awards
2011
Nominee for Joop Swart Masterclass (Wold Press Photo)
2010 / 2011
Winner of �gute aussichten � young german photography� Award
2010
Finalist New York Photo Festival, Catergory Student Social Documentary Essay
