Etty Yaniv interviewed me for Art Spiel earlier this year, and I’m pleased that my longform answers to her questions have been published in the article David Samuel Stern: Does a portrait need a subject? Etty interviewed me back in 2018, but so much has evolved since then.
This latest article/interview, I think, gives the best summation I’m capable of regarding where my work is at right now. It covers my Woven Portraits series, last year’s Unknown (American) commission, my Winter Solstice Pinhole Photographs series, my editorial work, and what I’ve been working on lately—in terms beyond the artist statements and talking points I’ve reiterated in various forms many times. I tried to include thoughts that are not totally resolved as well as occasional frankness. It’s not short, but, in the face of 2024’s so-far disheartening nature, it seemed right to go into depth on some of these things. I hope you’ll give it a read.