Charity Rachelle is an American lens-based documentary artist exploring themes of tradition and tribalism in the Deep South. Her work challenges dominant social narratives by examining complexities within communities that are too often reduced to stereotypes and clichés.

Charity uses immersive fieldwork and long-term engagement to survey how the loyalty people feel toward social or cultural groups shapes personal belief systems and culture at large. She is primarily interested in examining the forces that bind people together, as well as what keeps them apart.

Charity was raised in rural Alabama and is currently based in Birmingham, Alabama. She is a 2025 Magnum Foundation grantee. In 2024, she was awarded the Alabama State Council on the Arts Gay Burke Memorial Photography Fellowship. Additional awards include the Verdant Fund Project Grant (2022) and the Alabama State Council on the Arts Media/Photography Fellowship (2018). She has presented her work at the Times Center in New York City (2025), at ArtFields (2019), and at the Wiregrass Museum of Art (2018). Charity is a selected member of the FotofilmIC Annual Mentorship Program (2025) and a member of Women Photograph (2022–present). She works as an assignment photographer for publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Time, The Guardian, and The Atlantic.

Artist portrait by Moe Kite.