Chris Facey

3. June 2020

Photographer Chris Facey discusses his newest work depicting the tensions on the streets of New York City during both the COVID-19 crisis and the protests of George Floyd’s murder by the police. In this conversation, Facey reflects on how his experience as a father informs his empathetic approach to photographing others, how his commitment to social justice through activism and art grows stronger, and why words and language matter.

photograph © Chris Facey

Gabrielle Russomagno

19. May 2020

In this conversation, Gabrielle Russomagno recounts her trajectory from working as an influential portrait photographer included in the 1991 MoMA exhibition The Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort to her latest solo and collaborative projects, which expand to other media. Russomagno reflects on coming of age as a feminist, new relationships to productivity when working in a team, and analyzing the cycles of life on the individual and universal scale.

photograph © Gabrielle Russomagno

Penelope Umbrico

15. May 2020

Artist Penelope Umbrico discuses her contribution to the 2010 exhibition HOUSED as well as her recent works and interventions made in response to the COVID-19 crisis.  In this conversation, Umbrico unpacks photography’s shift from a reflective to projective medium, underscores her ability to find things in pictures and archives through cropping and editing, and illuminates what could be the completion of photography as a medium as we move to consistent screen time.

illustration © Penelope Umbrico

Accra Shepp

11. May 2020

Artist Accra Shepp discusses his newest work made in Queens, New York around Elmhurst Hospital at the Height of the COVID-19 crisis as well as his other socially engaged portraiture. In this conversation, Shepp sheds light on the importance of microhistories, our responsibilities at this critical moment in the United States, and how -- even when we feel that we have no agency -- we are never truly without power.

photograph © Accra Shepp

 Elizabeth Bick

6. May 2020

Join Joseph Maida in conversation with artist, Elizabeth Bick, who recently returned to New York after weeks in Texas with her family during the COVID-19 stay-at-home order. Looking ahead in the face of uncertain times and new approaches to making art, these artists discuss their shared medium of photography — as well as all the things we can’t anticipate, the need to balance control and chance, and the importance of authenticity.

photograph © Elizabeth Bick