EXIT 8 WITH TATUM SHAW - www.tatumshaw.com
1 - tell us a little bit about what you're sharing.
The title is taken from the old highway exit leading to The Golden Isles off the Georgia coast. This series primarily centers around one island in particular, Sea Island, during the wake of the 2008 financial collapse, the island’s subsequent bankruptcy, and my family’s gatherings there towards the end of my grandfather’s life.
2 - seasonal ritual ?
Other than getting a knot in my stomach thinking about the upcoming Northwest rainy season? Cooking. I’m so tired of grilling out and summer sides. I’m ready to make chili and soups and heavy stuff. My other ritual is going to LA for advertising work to escape the clouds.
3 - looking forward to …
All of the movies. Moonlight and Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals, in particular. I’m also really looking forward putting out my next photo series from stuff I’ve been shooting over the past 5 years. It’s a moodier and darker than some of my other stuff. Trying to figure out how to best present it. It’s all I think about. I’m obsessed!
4 - where can we find your book ?
Exit 8 is currently only stocked at Ampersand Gallery in Portland and on my website. But ordering from my site is easy and it can be in sunny LA in a couple days!