Islands In The Net

Aught Fraught Presents : Islands In The Net
organized by Matthew Porter

Tanyth Berkeley
Phil Chang
Joshua Citarella
Roe Ethridge
Daniel Gordon
Miranda Lichtenstein
Eileen Quinlan
Sara Greenberger Rafferty
Mariah Robertson
Hannah Whitaker

March 19th - April 18th
Opening Reception
Thursday March 19th, 6-9pm

Rectangle Room
at Primary Photographic
113 Eldridge St.
NY NY 10002
Open Monday - Friday, 9:30-6:30, Saturday, 10-6

Aught Fraught is an interview series podcast hosted by Matthew Porter about photography in the early 2000s (the aughts), an era that marked a high point in photography’s cultural visibility and market influence. For many practitioners and enthusiasts, the aughts remain a notably fraught, energetic, and formative decade for the medium. Every month it seemed there was another panel, another essay, another exhibition or catalogue that sought to find meaning and hope in what was largely considered to be photography’s moment of “crisis.”

Islands in the Net brings together a selection of Aught Fraught subjects, showcasing works that use myriad material strategies but focus on representation, particularly photography’s ability to frame ideas through various styles of depiction. The keystone work is Joshua Citarella’s large four panel banner, depicting a dystopian future, and showing the medium’s ability to merge image-generating software, digital appropriation, and lens-based pictures.

Matthew Porter is a photographer living in Brooklyn.

@aughtfraught