At Anonymous, K.O. Nnamdie brings their photo-maker’s eye and relational sensibility from Restaurant Projects—their peripatetic curatorial platform combining research, exhibition-making, and hospitality—into the Baxter Street space founded in 2008.

New York-based curator K.O. Nnamdie is interested in the state of United States culture as it stands today, pulling together a tight collection of images that could eventually be referenced as a snapshot of where we are — or, were, rather. Displayed at Anonymous Gallery in Manhattan, its title “Photography Then” looks backwards despite the exhibition being organized in present tense with recent work.

In an effort to encourage critical discourse around the re-emergence of these youth image aesthetics, curators K.O. Nnamdie and Tasneem Sarkez placed emerging artists—Chessa Subbiondo, Alyssa Kazew, Jesse Gouveia, and Thomas Polcaster—alongside established figures Buck Ellison and Jack Pierson.

A new photography show in New York featuring works by Buck Ellison, Jesse Gouveia, Jack Pierson and more explores pertinent questions of American-ness, masculinity, and race.

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