Zine
Sam Penn: Bad Behavior
$ 15.00
Published by New York Life Gallery, 2024.
Edition of 300
20 pages
© Sam Penn
Bad Behavior is Sam Penn’s second zine published by New York Life Gallery, coinciding with a solo show at Galerie Balice Hertling in Paris. Titled after Mary Gaitskill’s 1988 collection of short stories, the zine consists of photographs taken in New York over the past year featuring portraits, landscapes, and closeups of bodies. Drawing on a device Gaitskill uses to reconstruct memory in flashes of connected imagery, Penn arranges the photographs in a psychological sequence depicting the decay of one relationship and the birth of another.
Sam Penn (b. 1998, Oklahoma City, OK) is a photographer based in New York, NY. Her work has been shown at Galerie Balice Hertling, Paris and OCDChinatown, NY, and featured in Artforum and Interview Magazine. She received a BA in film studies from The New School. Her cinematic photographs are inherently social, captured with an intimacy and immediacy only possible through Penn's relationships to her subjects.