I’m thrilled to have contributed to Social Photography VII, brought to you by Peter Scott and the team at Carriage Trade!
Meet me tonight to see the work of many artists, friends, and support future programming for this non-profit gallery in the Lower East Side.
Opening: 6 - 8 pm | Tuesday, July 9, 2019
Carriage Trade, 277 Grand Street, 2nd floor, New York, NY 10002
Prints are available in the gallery and online:
socialphotography.carriagetrade.org
“First presented in 2011, carriage trade's Social Photography exhibitions have become both a tradition and an ongoing survey of cell phone camera use. What began as a novelty medium seven or eight years ago now provides currency for the $100 billion picture mill of Instagram, which funnels 95 million images a day through its social media network via opaque algorithms that determine the order and context of what we see.
Unlike social media formats on our phones which encourage endless scrolling through a "bottomless bowl" of images, Social Photography cell phone pictures exist both online and in the gallery. Faced with a group of photographs in the exhibition space, any of which can draw one's attention or focus, accidental associations present themselves through proximity (their order is based on when images are emailed to the gallery) underscoring the alternative of seeing cell phone images in a physical setting free of social media filters.”
Lisa Blas, detail, Autoportrait, VIVIIMMXVIII, 2018