Matthew, Main Street, Binghamton NY, 2008 by Tema Stauffer

Hello NYC collectors! I know I've mentioned it before, but somewhere between now and April 18th you should find time to check out Tema Stauffer and Francesca Romeo's show at DCFA. The show is garnering a lot of praise, including a review by Vince Aletti in The New Yorker this week:

These two young photographers approach portraiture from very different angles, but because their pictures are similarly fraught, complex, and compelling they complement each other nicely. Romeo, whose subjects are mostly friends and lovers on New York’s bohemian fringe, combines intimacy and theatricality in pictures that make the most of available light, dark shadows, and tattooed flesh. Stauffer photographs strangers—young men she meets on the street of Binghamton, New York, who appear at once rebellious and vulnerable. This volatile combination is kicked up a notch by erotic tension, but Stauffer is tender rather than confrontational, and her work looks beyond the boys’ cool affect to something warmer.

Daniel Cooney Fine Art
511 West 25th Street, #506
NYC

View images from Tema's 2004 show, American Stills, at Jen Bekman Gallery over here, read
Tema's blog, and see more of her images on her site.
Purchase Tema's 20x200 edition prints:
Palm Aire
White Ice