:: about

Rinne Allen is a photographer living in Athens, Georgia. Working in both color and black & white, she photographs daily as a way to catalog the things she sees and experiences.

Whether in images from her backyard garden or from as far away as India, she finds that beauty is in a detail, or in the movement or sway of something, and that it can be found all around us if we make the effort to look.

Born in Athens in 1973, Rinne studied photography and art at a small school on top of a mountain in Tennessee affectionately called Sewanee. She has traveled extensively, lived for a time in Paris, and now enjoys living in and getting to know the place where she grew up. A small college town known for its thriving art & music scene, Athens provides a beautiful place to live and work, as well as a near year-round gardening calendar due to its mild clime.

Rinne and her husband, Lee, maintain the garden of a former architect and landscape designer, the late Dr. John Linley, and have spent the last 8 years building on the legacy he left behind. Their most recent project is a greenhouse made of salvaged factory windows and wood. They just planted their summer vegetable garden, and are trying to figure out how to turn an old set of playground monkey bars into a garden trellis.

the time i have spent in my garden, in my hometown, in a small town, has helped me see that moments of experience and perception, when felt, help to provide a balance to the world's hectic-ness. almost meditative, my way of photographing is a search for the essence of something, in it's simplest form. that form then becomes part of my memory, something to reference on my next outing. it helps me stay here, and this feeling, while fleeting, is something i look forward to.