• photography
    • portraits
    • self-portraiture
    • analogue
    • restaurants
  • projects
    • the afterlives of things
    • mirror map
    • the fig papers
    • kaleidoscope
    • IRL / URL
  • about
rachel kirstein
  • photography
    • portraits
    • self-portraiture
    • analogue
    • restaurants
  • projects
    • the afterlives of things
    • mirror map
    • the fig papers
    • kaleidoscope
    • IRL / URL
  • about
 

Hello!

 
 

Photo by me!

Here are some things about me:

I’m a Montreal-based interdisciplinary creative lady with experience spanning photography, research, writing and editing, project management, and visual communication. I’m currently a PhD student in the Humanities program at Concordia University. I have an MA in Media Studies from Concordia University, and a BA in Creative Industries from Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson). I do everything with a lot of critical thought, curiosity, and care. I always have something to say, and I say it best in dialogue, in excess, in images, in lists.

Here are some things I like at the moment:

Looking around, playing with text, the thingness of things, the stories we tell, flea markets and estate sales, old books, everyday absurdities, wiggly dancing, funny faces, collage, essays, mundanities, minutiae, marginalia, relationality, windows, the poetry of customer reviews, meaning-making, pickled things, ruthless editing, networks, silliness and rigour, print ephemera, primary colours, screenshots, digressions, rocks, generative constraints, how value circulates, how words move, how pasts and futures exist in the present, collective knowledge-creation, ‘‘‘‘progress’’’’

 
 

Get in touch at rrachel.kirstein[at]gmail.com :)
the double r isn’t a typo it was a choice I made at 18 and it’s haunted me ever since!!!

 

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