Girl Under Glass Artist Book Update

Details / From my series on Times Square’s last peep show, “Girl Under Glass.”

Last falI I decided to make a limited-edition artist book of the project. I wanted to share the series but the privacy of the women photographed was crucial, as many keep their work secret from friends and families. The book is small and intimate and somehow more special without the photographs living online. About half of the edition has sold. Here’s some more info:

/Softcover, 42 pages
/Edition of 50, hand numbered + signed
/23 monochrome photographs + text
/$25 plus shipping

The pulp fiction cover was scanned from a real book I found in a secret bookstore in an Upper-Eastside apartment, while in the middle of photographing the project. It was a serendipitous find and one of those things that makes you fall in love again with your city.

If you’re interested in ordering one of the remaining copies in the edition, do so here. Please note, I’m located in New York City and am in isolation. I appreciate your support and patience as the books will be delayed in shipment (you will be notified when they ship).

Girl Under Glass artist book now available

In 2014 & 2015, I photographed inside Times Square’s last live peep show. My nostalgia for gritty midtown New York, derived from watching 1970s classics like Midnight Cowboy, was tempered after spending countless nights on the third floor of the porn shop where the cubicle booths entertained a wide variety of customers. The sleaze and hustle still exist in a few corners of the Disneyfied Deuce.

Four years after photographing I decided to make a small book. Disguised behind an old pulp fiction cover, “Girl Under Glass” is a signed and numbered edition of 50, and it includes 23 photographs and accompanying text. To protect the privacy of the women photographed, this intimate book format is the only way the full series can be viewed. If you’re interested, find instructions to purchase one of the limited edition here.

ICP Instagram Takeover: Rear Windows

In conjunction with the "Rear Windows" exhibition taking place at the International Center for Photography, over the next five days I'll be taking over the ICP Instagram. Every day I'll share photos from a different project, each one touching on the "Rear Windows" theme of small, unnoticed or unseen communities that exist all around us. Please follow along!

Rear Windows Opening Sep. 16th at the ICP

This Wednesday, my ongoing project on New York City's last surviving peep shows will be exhibited at the International Center of Photography, in their education gallery. The work of four other ICP alumni will be shown as well: Allen Agostino, Nicolas Enriquez, Chris Occhicone, and Theo Zierock. "Rear Windows" was originally created for The Invisible Dog Gallery in Brooklyn by Pauline Vermare and Martine Fougeron- thanks to Lucien Zayan for exhibiting us the first time and making this show possible.

Please join us for the opening reception on September 16, from 6-8pm, 1114 Avenue of the Americas. The work will be on view until November 22.

See the ICP Page here and join the Facebook invite here. Hope to see you!

Rear Windows: Exhibition Opens Jun 25 at Invisible Dog Gallery

Featuring the work of Allen Agostino, Cate Dingley, Nicolas Enriquez, Christopher Occhicone, and Theo Zierock.

The Invisible Dog Art Center presents Rear Windows, a photographic exhibition that explores five stories hidden in the shadows of New York City: they live in the “Hole,” a neighborhood in Brooklyn below sea level, squatting in trailers; they strip in Times Square’s last peep show; they roam the streets as a chapter of the Latin Kings gang; they are addicted to drugs and alcohol in a tent city; and they gamble at a crumbling aqueduct on the edge of Queens.

OPENING RECEPTION:
Thursday, June 25, 6-10PM
The Invisible Dog Art Center
51 Bergen St, Brooklyn, New York 11201
Free and open to the public, cash bar

ON VIEW:
June 26, 27, & 28, 1-8PM

Curated by Pauline Vermare, Assistant Curator at the International Center of Photography, and fine-art photographer Martine Fougeron, Rear Windows features the work of five emerging photographers, all 2014 graduates of the photojournalism and documentary program at ICP. Through their unique approaches, they introduce the viewer to subjects who live in their dark corners by choice or inadvertently by the situation in which they have found themselves.

RSVP to the Facebook Event

Girl Under Glass photographs as installed at Invisible Dog Gallery