Our final talk of the year is this Saturday, December 7! We’re going all out and celebrating with L’Artiere Edizioni. Eight artists will be in the studio to talk Ash Wednesday, apiaries, Georgio Morandi, Catholic school, and photobook publishing. Andrea Modica, Catholic Girl, 2024 Glendalis, 2024 Angela Cappetta spent the late 90s photographing the youngest daughter in a family on the Lower East Side. The work from that series about girlhood in pre-gentrified New York is behind her book Glendalis. Cousins, 2023 Kristen Joy Emack’s Cousins explores what it means to be a young girl among young girls. In one photograph, three girls sit atop the ruffled covers of a bed pushed up against a wood-paneled wall. At center and slightly forward, one girl appears upset and gazes downward beyond the frame. A light shining on a second girl at right echoes the impression that she has an idea; she turns to the eldest girl, at left, in search of its confirmation. That girl looks forward toward the camera. Here, and throughout the series, Kristen captures the whimsicality of self-making. The girls look inward at their own bond, sometimes searching for who knows what to do, who to share in a laugh, or who to leave be. We see affirmation, challenge, and ambivalence. In the quiet intimacy of cousins we see thoughts, moods, and feelings unspoken but understood. To Be, 2024
