Portrait Party

For his show at Yautepec, Sheldon created a formal portraiture studio. With his longtime interest in portraiture as a form and format in photography, this offered an opportunity to explore the relationship between the environment, the photographer and the subject.

Inspired by Walker Evans' 1936 Penny Picture Display, Savannah, Georgia, and its brilliantly captured assemblage of individual stories and personae, Sheldon sought to realize a total work within Yautepec that was at once performance, sculpture, and document of its time.

The portrait party was a good excuse to get hundreds of people in front of his camera.