Castleman
is currently an instructor in the Photo/Film Department here at VCU. She
received her BFA in Photography from NYU and her MFA in Photography from San
Francisco Art Institute in 1993. She began shooting fashion soon out of
graduate school (1996-1999) when she realized that fashion photography was
becoming more and more similar to her personal work. She photographed her
friends and their lives in their thrift store outfits promoting the kind of
grunge 90s style that is again swinging back into popularity. Larry Clark and
Nan Goldin, two photographers that have also influenced my own work, heavily
influence her older fashion work.
Castleman’s
use of color feels very nostalgic to me and she has mastered photographing
people in simple backgrounds that still provide a corner of narrative. For me,
the young women she chose to photograph feel like my own friends, only 30 years
later.
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