The Story Behind the Photobook and Journey
This version maintains the flow while placing your definition of "Rape Culture" directly at the conceptual core:
"The Rebuilt Horizon" began not as a project about trauma, but as an urgent conversation about resilience, voice, and intentional reconstruction.
For me, the journey started with the realization that Rape Culture operates through a dual mechanism: creating a societal silence—a vacuum I call Absence—and simultaneously using inappropriate spoken words that deepen that very gap. My mandate became to visually chart the path out of that void and into Presence.
My artistic philosophy is guided by the principle that what moves an artist to create is first the Intention (the 'Why'). The Technique (the 'How') comes after to enhance the vision. This conviction led me to the Japanese art of Kintsugi—repairing broken pottery with gold. I intentionally subjected my prints to tearing and crumpling to symbolize the wound, then used gold and mica to illuminate those scars, making the repaired object stronger and more valuable than the original.
This photobook is dedicated to the courage of the survivor who shared her journey, and it serves as a physical argument that the scars are not signs of damage, but veins of gold leading to a horizon defined by one's own voice.
This gallery offers a glimpse — a breath — of The Rebuilt Horizon.
It does not hold every portrait, every scar, every moment of reclamation.
Some stories are reserved for the pages.
If you feel moved by what you’ve seen,
the full photobook is available for purchase.
It holds the complete journey — the quiet strength, the ruptures, the gold.
Own the horizon. Witness the transformation. Carry the story forward.
She stands tall and straight. Look at her beautiful stature! It's conveyed strength and refusal to be broken.
She stands tall with a slight arch to her back. She turned her back to the past, tattooed with memory, marked by reclamation.
Looking out a window, her tattoos from her spine to her upper back and shoulders reveal her steadfastness and resilience. She is at home in her body.
The spaces we walk through carry echoes. Absence is never empty.
Behind The Blurred Lines
The Visible Language
The World Fades Away
Juliette Princess
Across The Cracks
Behind The Words
Waiting For The Word
The Locked Path
Time Unfolds
Behind The Bricks
The Heavy Secret
The Smallest Presence
The Self Witness
The Unsilenced Shout
Grounded
Private Room
Red Over Sound
The Mass Unseen
Twelve Fifty-Nine P.M
Shared Scars
The Quiet Stance
Vision & Weight
The Leaning Post
The Whispered Truth
Rythm Of Resilience
Kintsugi
Crystallized Quiet
Veins of Gold
Toward the light. Toward breath. Toward the rebuilt horizon.
Grace Remondo | Annual Photobook Exhibition
Each year, I present a new visual journey, an offering of light, beauty, life, and transformation.
This year’s edition: The Rebuilt Horizon,
Presented at the Photobook Coffee Table, November 8th, 2025
In collaboration with Ignite Photographic Club
at Art School, P.J. Olivier Stellenbosch
The Rebuilt Horizon
An Inventory of Absence and Light
This digital gallery introduces a survivor’s journey. Her silence mirrored the silence of many. Now, through image and motion, her voice breaks through. Her story unfolds not in loud declarations but in presence, in the refusal to remain unseen.
This photobook traces her journey—from rupture to reclamation—through landscapes, street photography, portraits, and quiet signals.
Presented at the Photobook Coffee Table event, November 8th.