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Meet Rebecca from our Summer Campaign
Posted by Claire Boote, on July 26, 2021.
Estimated reading time: 1 minute(s)
Rebecca 33, lives in Kendal in Cumbria
Horses have always been a big part of Rebecca’s life, but, as the one never without her camera on nights out, she was originally set on life as a fashion photographer.
With dreams of eventually enrolling at the London College of Fashion, she was encouraged to take a photography foundation course at a local college. While studying she got engaged to her teenage sweetheart and, after marrying, quickly became pregnant. However, after suffering a difficult pregnancy, the reality of moving to London with a young family and juggling study at the LCF started to feel unrealistic.
Instead, Rebecca decided to combine her two loves – for the past six years she’s been making a living as an equine portrait photographer taking pictures of people’s beloved horses.
“I get very carried away when I’m working,”
Rebecca says,
“and don’t really pay as much attention to my surroundings as I should. Once I was with a girl and her horse in a corn field and as I walked backwards I fell straight down a ditch. I just disappeared, then reappeared like a little mole popping its head out of the ground!”
But Rebecca is often called on for more emotional assignments with owners who only have a matter of days left with their horses. Rebecca recalls one particularly sad photoshoot; “One client was having to have her horse put down because he had been suffering for a long time with laminitis and could hardly walk. We went into a field and she removed his head collar. We both thought he would stand quietly but he just took off! It took us ages to catch him again, he was almost saying, ‘I know this is the last chance I’m going to get so I’m going to enjoy it…’”
Being an equine photographer involves a lot of running around and allows Rebecca to indulge in her love of riding when generous clients let her ride their horses. As a fuller-cup woman, she has recently discovered Royce’s Aerocool sports bra and never works without it – “it’s the best thing since sliced bread”!
Growing up,
Rebecca physically developed sooner than the other girls. She started wearing a bra at primary school and says, “I remember feeling nervous that the teacher would see that I had a bra on underneath my uniform – as if it mattered!”
She’s passionate about body confidence and celebrating women’s bodies, and would love to see more normalisation of ‘imperfect’ boobs in the media. Rebecca admits that although she feels a little exposed and uncomfortable if she’s not wearing a bra, she knows the importance of a good fit – “It bugs me when I see a fuller-cup woman wearing a badly fitted bra with the band halfway up the back, the boobs spilling out… You wouldn’t wear shoes that don’t fit you, so why a bra?” We couldn’t put it better ourselves!
