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:
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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
Explain Me: The Case for Taxing the Hell Out of Peter Brant
Explain Me, Part II: Doug Aitken New Era, Worst Show of 2018
Explain Me: Bags of Cash Help New Galleries
Related Utopias: Bitcoin Economies and the Art World
Explain Me: The New Museum Triennial—Two Critics Perform Their Own Acts of Sabotage
Spring Break Part Two: The City and the City (Part Two)
The Spring Break Art Show: A Good Time Show Disrupted by the Specter of Trump (Part One)
The Stink of Met Admission Hikes Endures
What Curators Really Think: A Cringe Worthy Report
Gentrification, Income Inequality and Donald Trump Baby Turds
An Interview with Kenny Schacter: There's No Bubble in the Art Market and No Solution for Struggling Artists
Making Monstrosity Visible in Three Parts: Paglen, Ga, and Fast
The Turd of Gentrification Floating in the Pond of Urbanism
The Broken Toilet
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