Artists Christine Elfman and Whitney Hubbs discuss, through presentations of their work, their ongoing projects and different photographic practices. Elfman and Hubbs are recipients of the 2020 Penumbra Workspace Program. Australian-British artist and 2020 Penumbra Workspace Program jury member Odette England moderates their conversation.

Odette England has shown in more than 90 solo, two-person and group exhibitions worldwide. She is the Visiting Artist-in-Residence at Amherst College, a resident artist of the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program in New York, and director of the Winter Garden Photograph project, for which she received a grant from the Mellon Foundation. She received a four-year fully-funded Research Training Program Scholarship to complete her PhD at the Australian National University in 2018, and has an MFA in Photography with honors from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Whitney Hubbs is a photographer who obsesses about giving it up to become a drawer or a musician, but in reality she likes taking pictures  too much. She changes her photographic mind a lot, meaning her subject matter varies because she doesn’t want to get bored. Hubbs was raised and educated in California but currently lives and teaches in western New York. She is represented by M+B Gallery in Los Angeles and Situations Gallery in NYC.

Christine Elfman is a visual artist who makes photographs about and through the process of fading.  She makes pictures out of their own disappearance, to see how the desire for pictorial permanence gives way to change and the invisible.  She received her MFA from California College of the Arts and BFA from Cornell University.  Her recent awards include a Light Work Grant in Photography and the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center Exhibition.  Elfman currently lives in central New York.  She is represented by Euqinom Gallery in San Francisco.