7-10 Years Experience
Rex _
Storytelling Photographer
Available For:
Collaboration, Fundraiser Donations, Social Practice, Teaching / Residency, BLINK Week Collaboration
About the Artist
Rex is a photographer based in Ohio, drawn to the quiet stories unfolding in ordinary places. Working primarily with the OM‑System, he looks for small gestures of light, weather, and behavior that reveal character in people, landscapes, and wildlife.His images often focus on intimate landscapes, and subtle details—scenes that suggest a larger narrative just outside the frame. Rather than chasing grand vistas alone, Rex builds sequences of photographs that feel like chapters from a walk, a season, or a passing storm.
Through this work, he invites viewers to slow down and notice how familiar environments change with time, distance, and attention, treating each photograph as a fragment of an ongoing story about place and presence
“As we walk along a trail, it’s easy to overlook nature’s quiet details. This moss‑ringed hollow on a fallen tree stopped me because it felt like a small doorway, showing how life returns even to what looks dead. The log may be gone, but new growth has already claimed it, reminding me that life will do whatever it can to survive.”
As we move through crowded spaces, it’s easy to rush past the people who’ve stepped fully into another world. Here, her gaze stopped me—the painted symbols, braids, and furs felt less like costume and more like a character she was carrying with complete conviction. In that moment, she became a living story in the middle of the noise, a reminder that imagination can be just as real and present as anything around us.
On most nights this tree would disappear into the dark, just another shape at the edge of the field. Here, the harsh artificial light lifts it out of the night and turns every branch into a line on black paper. It feels less like a tree and more like a drawing made of light—bare, exposed, and slightly lonely—holding its ground between the quiet sky and the empty field below.
On most nights a car like this would just blur past as part of the traffic, gone before you really see it. Here, tracking it through the intersection turns the Buick into the main character of the street—its wheels, color, and motion separated from the city sliding by behind it. For a moment it feels like time bends around this one car, carrying a bit of another era through the glow of modern neon and stoplights.
I absolutely love how nature finds a way to make beautiful things in every way. To see the delicate flower and the working bee searching for even the smallest sip of nectar and capturing that synergy. Priceless