Ted Partin photographs with an 8x10 view camera. The pictures rely on direct gaze, subtle gesture, and the seductiveness of the print to establish a delicate triangle of desire between the subject, photographer, and passive on-looker. His photographs resist the instantaneous and reside at a place of tension. The work strives to poetically describe an essential part of the mystery of a global tribe, its idealism, its beauty, even its hope.
Partin’s work has been exhibited in New York, San Francisco, Madrid, Paris, Dusseldorf, and Tokyo. In 2010 he had his first solo museum exhibition, Eyes Look Through You, at the Kunstmuseen Krefeld Museum Haus Esters in Krefeld, Germany. His work is held in the collections of the Yale University Art Gallery, the Fondation de Cartier Pour le Art de Contemporain, and the Do Good Fund, as well as many private collections.
Partin was appointed lecturer in photography at the Yale School of Art in 2016. He lives in Brooklyn.