“I anchor myself in the moment through others”: Rhiannon Adam explains her unique take on photography
After an adventurous childhood spent sailing around the world, the London-based photographer developed a need to photographically record her life. Here, she tells us more.
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Rhiannon Adam has had an eventful life, to say the least. Born in County Cork, Ireland, she spent the first seven years of her life in a small village called Ballinadee, a place her parents ended up in by going on holiday and never coming back. Together with her parents, they lived in a farmhouse “always in some progressive state of renovation” before turning their lives upside down and moving onto a boat (a 42-foot steel, bilge-keeled sailing boat) sailing between the Caribbean and South America. Describing it as “confined and claustrophobic”, far from the luxury of yachts and what we might think of when we think of sailing, Rhiannon spent the best part of her childhood in this “solitary little unity,” feeling like “we never really fitted in with where we were and no longer belonged from where we came”.