New York Foundation for the Arts Artists & Audiences Exchange Program

Photographer and 2010 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship recipient S. Billie Mandle presents the works in her Reconciliation project—a photographic series of Catholic confessionals, made from the perspective of the penitent. Using available light, Mandle abstracts the small rooms, looking at the relationship between the tangible structure of the confessional and the intangible ritual of the space. In this presentation, she will discuss and show examples of these photographs, which were influenced by her Italian-American background.