Photo: Arcahaie, Haiti. © Alex Webb from Slant Rhymes.
Over a period of 30 years, Magnum photographer Alex Webb and poet and photographer Rebecca Norris Webb have traveled the earth, capturing the mystical moments of life on film. Whether visiting London or Istanbul, Paris or Tijuana, the images they create speak to each other in a language that goes beyond words – creating harmonies, melodies, and rhythms all their own.
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What began as a friendship blossomed into love and marriage, as well as books: most recently a volume titled Slant Rhymes (La Fabrica). A love poem to photography, to the world, and to relationships themselves as it reveals a powerful energy that exists when we are fully present in the moment. The book is organised in diptychs, with one photograph from each photographer facing the other in silent conversation.
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“Rebecca and I first realised that our photographs talked to one another in intriguing ways with our initial collaboration, Violet Isle, a book on Cuba. We discovered that our photographs often visually rhyme, but, more often than not, at a slant,” Alex reveals. “With Slant Rhymes, our paired photographs are not necessarily linked by geography, but by other things as well. Sometimes it’s a palette, geometry, or the evocation of a mood. Other times it’s a shared sense of surrealism.”
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Brooklyn, New York, USA. © Rebecca Norris Webb from Slant Rhymes.
Appuzha, India. © Alex Webb from Slant Rhymes.