“I don’t care. I know what I am doing.”
We meet Stephen Shore, one of the most outstanding photographers of our time, who shares his advice for young people.
“On the other hand, I’ve been teaching for 40 years, and I see students who graduate and have a lot of success and then don’t want to abandon the work that brought them success and get stuck in it.”
“Another thing I’ve observed teaching is I’ve seen many students who I know are just blessed with natural talent, but if they don’t have a certain degree of ambition, I’ll never see a picture they’ve taken after graduating. The people who are successful have a combination of talent, work ethic, and ambition.”
Stephen Shore was born in New York in 1947. His photographs are attentive to ordinary scenes of daily experience, yet through colour–and composition–Shore transforms the mundane into subjects of thoughtful meditation. A restaurant meal on a road trip, a billboard off a highway, and a dusty side street in a Texas town are all seemingly banal images, but upon reflection, they subtly imply meaning. Colour photography attracted Shore for its ability to record the range and intensity of hues seen in life.
In 1971, at age twenty-three, he became the first living photographer to have a one-person show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. His 1982 book, Uncommon Places, became a bible for young photographers seeking to work in colour because, along with that of William Eggleston, his work exemplified that the medium could be considered art.
Stephen Shore’s work has been exhibited and collected at and by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He has received numerous awards, which you can find listed here: https://www.303gallery.com/artists/stephen-shore/biography. Since 1982, he has been the director of the Photography Program at Bard College in New York’s Hudson Valley. Under the title Vehicular & Vernacular, the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris opened a vast retrospective of Shore’s work in May 2024.
Stephen Shore was interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner at 303 Gallery in New York on the occasion of his show presenting new drone photographs of the American landscape.
Camera: Jarl Therkelsen Kaldan
Edited by: Jarl Therkelsen Kaldan
Produced by: Marc-Christoph Wagner
Copyright: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2025
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