‘Through the lens’ is our monthly series that spotlights photographers who are Wallpaper* contributors. Here we explore the vision of American photographer Tina Tyrell
After experimenting with photography in high school, Tina Tyrell was just 18 when she began taking pictures professionally. For the New York-based photographer, human connection is at the core of her practice. Whether she’s shooting a portrait, a fashion story or still life, insight into her subject’s interior world is the driving force.
In that formal sense, people can become almost symbolic of themselves. But it’s a bit unresolved. Also, they have to trust me, so there is this social dance that happens at the time of the picture-taking that is interesting. I have a hard time when someone doesn’t trust me. It usually shows up in the picture. But I have to think to myself, ’I have to get through this with them; once I do, the photo will live on past this moment.
And there is this interesting irony; with the rapid consumption of images, I think the image itself does better to be slow. The general eye is extremely sophisticated. So there are these kinds of ironies that you can never predict. At this point, it’s almost like there is nothing more important than a photograph. A photograph is The World. It is used as the primary means to communicate everything. It allows us to be everywhere all at once.
I think this is why I continue to be interested in portraits because I like how they are representative of something more universal about people. They are not transient the way life online is, they transcend all that. And with photography’s X factor, which is time, that fact becomes all the more clear. Time both connects and disconnects everything. I love to look at old photographs, particularly those of anonymous people and stare into their faces and imagine who they were.
So I’m thinking about how the show could be about how photography holds a split second in time that existed and will never happen again. But then it also infers an entire space of time when there wasn’t a picture taken, there’s all the space in between before and after that. So it’s the way the chosen photographs interact with each other to try and tell that story. People are always in process, it is photography that stops that process.
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