Yemima Rabin grew up in Israel and came to the USA to study TV and film production at Northwestern University. After receiving her M.A. she moved to Madison, Wisconsin where she took courses in photography and began a free-lance career, which became a serious vocation after relocating permanently in the Bay Area. She soon became affiliated with an artists’ cooperative, Gallery House (in Palo Alto), where she had a number of shows and served as president of the organization. After raising three children, she turned to the new medium of digital photography. At that point, in 2007, she and her husband began to live every other year in New York City (retaining a home base in Palo Alto in off-years).
Once situated in New York City, Yemima commenced working on a photographic project focused on street art. This project developed into a full-blown photo essay, If Walls Could Talk: New York City Off the Beaten Track. Returning to the Bay Area, she created a second project focused on street art, Past and Present in San Francisco. Since then, she has moved on to other projects, all of which express a common theme in her work: an abiding interest in vernacular representations of American culture. They can be viewed on this website.