Interview
“BUILD YOUR PRACTICE AROUND WHAT MOVES YOU, NOT WHAT PERFORMS WELL ON AN ALGORITHM”
the moment. No forcing. No planning. Just showing up, with a heart full of hope and a camera in hand. That’s where real magic lives, and my FUJIFILM X-T5 made the colours sing just as I experienced it standing there! A moment of being completely soaked, completely alive... Q. What’s your number one piece of advice for other photographers? A. Stay curious. Listen to your intuition. Technical skill matters, but curiosity and trusting your inner knowing is what will sustain you. Ask why light is behaving the way it is. Learn the ecology of the species you are photographing. Pay attention to how a place makes you feel and trace that back to composition and timing. Perhaps most importantly, build your practice around what moves you, not what performs well on an algorithm. The industry can be noisy and trend led. The work that lasts feels authentic and reminds us what it is to be humans on this beautiful planet. If you follow that, your style will emerge naturally and your images will carry something deeper that has the potential to shape hearts and minds.
A . The sun in Seljalandsfoss in Iceland at midnight (far left) is one I will carry with me for a long time. We’d got the last ferry from Vestmannæyjar to the mainland and I was obsessed with a gap in the clouds near the horizon. We had a four-hour drive ahead. A 15-minute detour made no sense at all. But I had a hunch. I’d always wanted to capture the falls from inside the cave, and Iceland has taught me to trust instincts above almost anything else. Was I going to be 15 minutes away from it with the possible dream conditions lining up? So we took the detour. Waiting in the cave was electrifying, more and more people were gathering, we were stood shoulder to shoulder, chatting about what we hoped we might see. The moment the midnight sun broke through was incredible. People were screaming, laughing, jumping for joy. The wall of falling water lit up in deep amber and red. This image for me is liminal, a surrender to the alchemy of
Q. What’s your favourite camera or lens at the moment? A. The FUJIFILM X-T5 is at home in my kitbag, and my favourite lens forever changes. When I want to move freely but still have a camera, I reach for the FUJINON XF27mmF2.8 R WR. That pancake form is joyful. It collapses it all down to something you barely notice you’re carrying, so you can stay present in moments whether shooting for work or play. This image (pictured above) is a perfect example of why. It is from a day trip to Belgium with friends in December – one of those short winter days when the light hangs low all afternoon and then, just before it goes, gives you everything your soul needs. I was there, immersed in belly laughter with my best people, feeling present and still capturing liminal moments as they passed by.
Trips to Iceland (far left) and Belgium (above left) have yielded compelling results for Rebecca
Q. What’s your favourite photo from the last year?
FUJIFILM Focus Magazine 17
March/April 2026
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