Since the late-’60s, Todd Lockwood has been shooting black and white studio portraits of friends and acquaintances. His large-scale prints are an exercise in hyperrealism, exquisite light, and authenticity. Every well-earned wrinkle and blemish are magnified and gloriously rendered. In 2015, he began experimenting with a new kind of portraiture, combining portrait photography, cinema, and writing. He calls them “Cinema Portraits.” These pieces continue his portrait aesthetic and are technically virtuosic and poignantly intimate, inviting the viewer into relationship with his subjects.
For this event, Todd Lockwood and collaborator John Killacky talk about his portraits, with the artist sharing some of the Cinema Portraits, including those of Stephen Kiernan, Margaret Strouse, John Douglas, Mike Gordon, and Killacky.