Brianna Capozzi has spent the past decade redefining the narrative in fashion and contemporary portraiture of women. Her images unbind the female form and honor its wild and erotic power. Her lawless compositions effortlessly mix celebrity, the mundane, the absurd and the surreal, high and low, naturalism & idealism. There is an erotic interplay between photographer and subject, with both sides playfully exchanging power. Vibrant photographs of contemporary female icons, including Kim Kardashian, Miley Cyrus, Bella Hadid, Pam Anderson, Dua Lipa, Chloë Sevigny, and Selena Gomez, along with familiar faces from Capozzi’s New York circle of friends and muses, celebrate a feminine point of view and disrupt the legacy of the female form being depicted for the male gaze. Capozzi’s sophisticated camerawork weaves high fashion with saturated narratives, pop culture, her own handmade garments, and props. The images are enticing, glamorous, and unexpected.
Brianna Capozzi is a Jersey girl. She had a fervent interest in the power, versatility, and inherent creative force of the female form from a young age, and began making clothing by hand in 2006 during her first year at Parsons School for Design, in New York City. This led to her photographing her clothing on her family and friends – which has continued to be a central part of her practice. She was immediately drawn to this more collaborative, dreamlike and spontaneous part of the fashion life cycle. She’s been making images ever since, almost always with a focus on the many dimensions of the women around her. Singular and handmade elements continue to play a part in her work; she remains involved in the set, prop, and clothing design necessary to create her surreal, feminine worlds.
First published in 2014, Capozzi has contributed to a movement of contemporary female-led fashion photography, which places less emphasis on an ideal and instead uplifts the raw, fierce and playful that exists innately and uniquely in each subject. Capozzi’s work has been featured in magazines including Vogue, British Vogue and Vogue Italia, Dazed Magazine, Interview, Pop Magazine, Double Magazine, M Le Monde, Reedition Magazine and many others. She’s photographed Rihanna, Kim Kardashian, Selena Gomez, Miley Cyrus, Pamela Anderson, Olivia Rodrigo, ASAP Rocky, Chloe Sevigny, Naomi Campbell, Bella Hadid, Cindy Crawford, Halle Bailey, and shot Miley Cyrus’s album cover, Flowers. She has photographed campaigns for Gucci, Marc Jacobs, Calvin Klein, Cartier, Nike, Adidas, Victoria’s Secret, Fenty, Rare Beauty, and Burberry.
Exhibition & Book Launch
curated by Tim Barber
April 24 - May 9
Opening Reception Friday April 24, 6 - 9pm
Rectangle Room
at Primary Photographic
113 Eldridge St.
NY NY 10002
Wet Ground (Loose Joints, 2026) by British-Iranian artist Aria Shahrokhshahi, is a long-term body of work developed through repeated stays living and volunteering in Ukraine since 2019. Made from inside the war rather than in response to it, Shahrokhshahi’s activist approach rejects spectacle in favour of proximity, focusing on the rhythms, contradictions and fragile continuities of daily life shaped by prolonged violence and uncertainty.
Shahrokhshahi moves beyond the visual shorthand of war imagery to present scenes that are often inscrutable, absurd, domestic, performative or oblique. A recurring focus on youth and subculture finding ways to survive and thrive reflects the radical and improvised paths life in Ukraine takes in the present moment. Wet Ground lingers in the spaces around conflict, where threat, loss and anticipation shape the daily existence of a generation of young Ukrainian men and women, even as they continue to carve out moments of resistance, rebellion and joy.
The book’s title links Shahrokhshahi's survival of a rocket strike while assisting in a medical evacuation of civilians from a frontline town, where wet ground prevented the detonation of a missile, to the unstable terrain of a country undergoing rapid and violent transformation, in which safety and danger exist in close proximity and the ground itself feels unreliable. Developed alongside Shahrokhshahi’s ongoing humanitarian work in Ukraine and extending the fundraising efforts of his previous publications and exhibitions, Wet Ground is accompanied by his immersive documentary While We Heal, as well as his ongoing sculptural and installation-based works from Ukraine, forming an embodied account of a country resisting erasure while life continues under pressure.
Aria Shahrokhshahi (b. 1996) is a British-Iranian multi-disciplinary artist, whose practice has been shaped by a deep fascination with the intricate dynamics of diverse communities and the complexities of the human condition. With a focus on social structures and the human experience, Shahrokhshahi's work serves as a critical exploration of the relationships and power dynamics that inform everyday life.
Organized by Matthew Porter
Tanyth Berkeley
Phil Chang
Joshua Citarella
Roe Ethridge
Daniel Gordon
Miranda Lichtenstein
Eileen Quinlan
Sara Greenberger Rafferty
Mariah Robertson
Hannah Whitaker
March 19th - April 18th
Opening Reception
Thursday March 19th, 6-9pm
Rectangle Room
at Primary Photographic
113 Eldridge St.
NY NY 10002
Open Monday - Friday, 9:30-6:30, Saturday, 10-6
Aught Fraught is an interview series podcast hosted by Matthew Porter about photography in the early 2000s (the aughts), an era that marked a high point in photography’s cultural visibility and market influence. For many practitioners and enthusiasts, the aughts remain a notably fraught, energetic, and formative decade for the medium. Every month it seemed there was another panel, another essay, another exhibition or catalogue that sought to find meaning and hope in what was largely considered to be photography’s moment of “crisis.”
Islands in the Net brings together a selection of Aught Fraught subjects, showcasing works that use myriad material strategies but focus on representation, particularly photography’s ability to frame ideas through various styles of depiction. The keystone work is Joshua Citarella’s large four panel banner, depicting a dystopian future, and showing the medium’s ability to merge image-generating software, digital appropriation, and lens-based pictures.
Matthew Porter is a photographer living in Brooklyn.
A ten-year retrospective of the imprint Pomegranate, curated by publisher Jesse Feinman. This group exhibition features work from over 70 photographers that have published with Pomegranate, and is accompanied by a limited edition catalog. Pomegranate will also stock the Rectangle Room shelves with their library for the duration of the show, and will host a few artists talks and signings.
The Fountain by Jimi Franklin, features work from an extensive series of black & white 6x7 film portraits of NYC youth in covid era Washington Square Park. A beautiful document (hand printed by Jimi) of a unique and uncertain time in the lives of a community of city kids. The show was accompanied by a limited edition zine.
Daniel Arnold, Tim Barber, Asger Carlsen, Jimi Franklin, Balarama Heller, Georgia Hilmer, Jerry Hsu, Medina Kalač, Jackie Kursel, Alain Levitt, Jason Nocito, Luisa Opalesky, Gus Powell, Stephen Schuster, Nick Sethi.