151 - Tania Franco Klein
Tania Franco Klein (b. 1990) started photography while gaining a BA in Architecture in her home town of Mexico City, which led her to pursue a Masters degree in Photography at the University of the Arts, London.
Her work is highly influenced by a fascination with social behavior and contemporary concerns such as leisure, consumption, media overstimulation, emotional disconnection, the obsession with eternal youth, the American dream in the Western world and the psychological impact of these concerns on everyday life.
Tania’s work has been reviewed and featured internationally in publications such as ARTFORUM, L.A Times, I-D Magazine, The Guardian, The Paris Review, Aperture Foundation, and The British Journal of Photography, and she has been commissioned by The New York Times, The New Yorker, FT weekend, New York Magazine, Vogue and Dior, among others.
Tania has been exhibited widely both in solo and group shows across Europe, the USA, and Mexico, including at Photo London, the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography and the Aperture Gallery in New York City. Her latest exhibition, Proceed To The Route , which showcased a wide selection of her latest work, was presented by ROSEGALLERY and received enthusiastic reviews both in Mexico City (2019) and Los Angeles (2020).
She was recently selected by W Mag as one of 9 photographers to follow and has won Sony World Photography Awards in two consecutive years, The Lensculture Exposure Awards, Lensculture Storytelling Awards, and the Photo London Artproof Schliemann Award as the best emerging artist during the Photo London fair in 2018. Her first publication Positive Disintegration (2019) was nominated for the Paris Photo Aperture Foundation First Book Award.
On episode 151, Tania discusses, among other things:
- The nomadic lifestyle
- Why she recreated her old room in her grandmother’s house in her studio
- The psychology of capitalism
- Her book, Positive Disintegtration
- The role of technology in the sense of inadequacy
- How the process of doing self portraits came about
- Her use of colour
- Her approach to exhibition design
- Bookmaking workshops - pros and cons
- The tendency of some men to dispense advice to female artists
- Current project, Proceed To The Route
- Selling prints
- Why she loves doing commissions
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“With photography you have the opportunity to be more absurd and to still make sense and connect with people throughout these bizarre events happening, and that’s what makes it more rich.”