Jocelyn Lee, artist interview




Face-to-Face, from the National Portrait Gallery show

Summary: The exhibition "Portraiture Now: Feature Photography" is on view at the National Portrait Gallery, until September 27, 2009. This exhibition features works by six critically acclaimed photographers = Katy Grannan, Jocelyn Lee, Ryan McGinley, Steve Pyke, Martin Schoeller and Alec Soth. NPG associate curator of photographs, Frank Goodyear, sat down with photographer Jocelyn Lee to discuss her work. Lee's photographs for this exhibition were drawn from work that she has completed in Maine, a place where she has spent much time. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Lee has served as a professor of photography at Princeton University since 2003. View the online exhibition for "Feature Photography" at http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/feature . Recorded at NPG, December 8, 2008. Image info: Untitled (Kara on Easter) / Jocelyn Lee, 1999 / Chromogenic print / Collection of the artist / Copyright Jocelyn Lee