Explain Me with Andy Adams of FlakPhoto: From Idyllic Photos to The Surveillance State
2020-11-02

Image via: Andy Adams instagram.
In this episode of Explain Me we talk to Andy Adams (FlakPhoto on instagram), a culture producer and long time digital director. Andy is the founder of FlakPhoto Projects, an international community of photographers that operates in a parallel path to the one Powhida and Johnson come from—the New York based studio and museum world. Andy, William, and Paddy began working online around the same time—2003-2005, so we start our conversation there. We track through the exuberance and possibility we saw online in the early aughts, the economic collapse of the late aughts, and fraught political environment we’re now navigating. Subjects include: The signature Flak Photo style, the ethics of documentary photography, and the the postponed Guston show at the Tate.
References and reading:
Instagram: @photographersvote #photographersvote
Two Museums Tried to Sell Art. Only One Caught Grief About it. New York Times
Guston Can Wait. Nikki Columbus, N+1
Contra-Internet, Zach Blas, e-flux Journal
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