Artist Talk: Sasha Wolf

Saturday, Sep 21, 2019 12 – 1 pm

Free

Location: Millennium Knickerbocker Hotel, 163 East Walton Place

The talk will be followed by a book signing. Books will be available for sale at the Festival.

Join Sasha Wolf and special guest Kelli Connell, as they discuss Wolf’s new book PhotoWork: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice, published by Aperture (September 2019). Edited and introduced by Wolf, PhotoWork is a collection of interviews by forty photographers about their approach to making photographs and, more importantly, a sustained body of work.

How does a photographic project or series evolve? How important are “style” and “genre”? What comes first – the photographs or a concept? Curator and lecturer Sasha Wolf was inspired to seek out and assemble responses to these questions after hearing from countless young photographers about how they often feel adrift in their own practice, wondering if they are doing it the “right” way. The responses, from both established and newly emerging photographers, reveal there is no single path.  Their advice is wildly divergent, generous, and delightful.

PhotoWork includes Q&A style interviews by Robert Adams, Dawoud Bey, Alejandro Cartegena, Elinor Carucci, John Chiara, Kelli Connell, Lois Conner, Matthew Connors, Sian Davey, Doug DuBois, John Edmonds, Paul Graham, Katy Grannan, Gregory Halpern, Curran Hatleberg, Todd Hido, Rinko Kawauchi, Peter Kayafas, Justine Kurland, Gillian Laub, John Lehr, Dana Lixenberg, Andrew Moore, Abelardo Morell, Zora J. Murff, Catherine Opie, Ed Panar, Matthew Pillsbury, Kristine Potter, Gus Powell, Richard Renaldi, Sasha Rudensky, Lise Sarfati, Bryan Schutmaat, Manjari Sharma, Dayanita Singh, Tiffany Smith, Alec Soth, Mark Steinmetz, and Vanessa Winship.

Sasha Wolf represents emerging and mid-career, fine art photographers. After running the influential New York photo gallery, Sasha Wolf Gallery, for 10 years, Sasha transitioned back to a private/pop-up model in 2017. Sasha continues her work to place her artist’s photographs in important private and public collections, edit and support their various book and magazine publications and curate and support their exhibitions. Additionally, Sasha works with a larger group of artists as a book and project editor and on other professional practices. Sasha is currently completing a book of interviews, to be published by Aperture in Fall 2019, with many of today’s most important photographers. Sasha reviews and judges work for leading art institutions, universities and fairs numerous times a year and lectures and conducts artist’s workshops around the country on professional practices and project development.