A selection of work from photographer and musician Christopher Postlewaite. Currently based in Philadelphia, Postlewaite holds a BA and BFA from SUNY Purchase as well as an MFA from the Yale School of Art. His work comprises staged and observational images made within his social circle, paying particular attention to one’s relationship to place, subculture, and self-presentation:
“My work is centered around my experience of living in Philadelphia and mediates photographs made in collaboration with my spouse, friends and friends of friends, in harmony with pictures that describe my new neighbour’s dog, the empty corner store, a members only after-hours bar called Foto Club that burned down this April, a letterboard as group portrait in a former strip club called Cousin Danny’s and a transcendent puddle two blocks from my home in South Philadelphia… I’m interested in my work like that of a photobooth—as a space where performance and self-presentation dovetail, where fictions, realities and adhoc patinas orbit as one.”
