Josh Brand’s studio is tucked way up at the top of a four-floor walk-up in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and is filled with books, plants, and stacks of bright yellow photo-paper boxes holding his experiments both current and past. In conversation with Sophie Hackett, the AGO’s Assistant Curator of Photography, Josh talked about where his ideas come from, how considerations of perception and memory influence his practice, and then walked us through his process in creating his unique photographic works.
The final stop on our whirlwind tour of the shortlisted artists’ studios was a visit with Leslie Hewitt in a studio in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she is completing a one-year residency at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Leslie talked with AGO Assistant Curator of Photography Sophie Hackett about her interest in personal snapshots, the politics of Civil Rights Era photojournalism, and what sculpture and the body have to do with the work she makes.
You’ll hear a lot more from Josh and Leslie over the summer as we post video excerpts from these conversations right here on The Grange Prize blog. And, of course, you can catch the longer videos later this fall inside The Grange Prize Exhibitions at the AGO and the MoCP, Chicago. Stay tuned!
