About

Audrey Hope Rinehart lives and works in NYC, where she uses stylized lighting, saturated colors, highly reflective surfaces and in-camera practical effects to create mood-rich editorial and branding images.

Rinehart was gifted her first camera, a Poloroid, in the 1990s. Despite being surrounded by natural beauty in her home region of southern Appalachia, she was mostly interested in photographing her classmates at school and observing how light falls on unique facial features.

She began touring as an arts and glamour model, across the US in 2008. Since that time, her work has been featured internationally, in publications and galleries. Living and working in major cities opened doorways for Rinehart to learn and perfect techniques in the studio and on-location.

Today, human beings remain at the center of Rinehart’s creative world. Using both traditional and novel approaches to lighting craft, she aims for authenticity with elements of surrealism. She encourages subjects to use their photo session as an opportunity to step through a creative portal, toward an elevated vision of themselves — one that reflects on meaningful inner lives and new ways of seeing.