The Answer is No Podcast, Envisioning the Future, with Lola Flash
Artists’ journey are rarely predictable. For Lola Flash, as a young kid growing up in New Jersey, with a 35mm camera in her hands and a supportive mother who would soon set up a darkroom for her at home, she knew she didn’t want to wait to become a photographer. But the path to seeing her work on the walls of galleries and museums wasn’t so straightforward.
In fact, early on in Flash’s career, the overwhelming whiteness of museums left her feeling they weren’t a place she wanted to share her work at all. She also never imagined herself making conceptual work. Now, more than three decades into her career, she’s shifting her perspective on many things, and is even undertaking her first series of conceptual photographs.
In this week’s episode we’ll hear more about the journey from snapping photos of her classmates in grade school, to a possible career in scientific photography, to a 12-year detour to London, and so much more.
Our interview was recorded in October 2020.