Rosie Brock was born in South Carolina and raised in both Gulf Coast Florida and Virginia. She is currently based in New York City, where she is completing her final year in the BFA Photography and Video Program at the School of Visual Arts. Her work can be viewed at rosie-brock.com or @rosie_brock.
Taken over the course of two consecutive summers, the photographs in Rosie Brock’s And Ever Shall Be explore the collision of economic depression and the familiar fantasy of the Southern county fair. A man in a Domino sugar t-shirt sits atop a white horse, a boy in a cowboy hat leans so close to the camera the rest of the world fades out of focus, and a woman, unsmiling, watches a carnival spectacle the viewer can’t see. Meanwhile the sun sets over empty train tracks and a carousel trailer, and the overall effect is at once hopeful and melancholic.