Roe Ethridge
Roe Ethridge is a New York photographer whose pictures bring fashion, advertising, still life, and everyday experience into the same frame.
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Known for
Loose Joints
Loose Joints
MACKOverview
- Born
- 1969 · Miami, Florida
- Based in
- New York
- Work
- Art, fashion, and commercial photography
- Education
- BFA, Atlanta College of Art, 1995
- Early milestone
- Greater New York at MoMA PS1, 2000
Mini bio
How it started.
Born in Miami, Ethridge studied photography at the Atlanta College of Art, earning a BFA in 1995. After moving to New York in 1997, Ethridge began working commercially and had a first New York solo exhibition in 1998.
The useful accident.
A beauty assignment helped bring the two sides of the practice together: a laughing model with chapped lips made an outtake worth keeping. Instead of separating commissioned images from personal work, Ethridge began letting them speak to each other. That approach reached MoMA PS1’s Greater New York in 2000; a pigeon photograph appeared on Artforum’s cover in 2003.
Pictures in conversation.
The work moves between portraits, fashion, ordinary objects, and found imagery. MoMA’s New Photography 2010 presented this approach through photographs that gain meaning from their sequence and reuse. Ethridge’s books offer another way to follow those connections, including American Polychronic (MACK, 2022).
The current chapter.
The 2026 book Rude in the Good Way combines studio experiments, fashion photographs, still lifes, and intimate portraits made with collaborator Lulu Sylbert. In the Beginning returns to three self-published books from 2004–05: County Line, Orange Grove, and Spare Bedroom.
Creditschronological, newest first
Books
- 2026Rude in the Good WayPhotographer; co-editor with Sarah Chaplin Espenon
- 2026In the BeginningPhotographer; reissue of three early books
- 2022American PolychronicPhotographer
Exhibitions
- 2026Nobuyoshi Araki and Roe EthridgeExhibiting artist; selection and sequencing
- 2026Fugue for 31 rue CambonPhotographer, Chanel archive commission
- 2025Shore Front ParkwaySolo artist, Andrew Kreps Gallery
- 2010New Photography 2010Exhibiting artist, MoMA
Awards
Quotes
A sequence has to sing.Roe Ethridge, Gagosian artist biography
Trivia
- Ethridge assisted catalog photographers in Atlanta, an early introduction to the pace and unpredictability of a commercial studio.
- Orange Grove began with a neglected orange grove across the street from a cousin’s home in Fort Pierce, Florida.
- Spare Bedroom grew out of a New York Times Magazine assignment photographing furniture designer Roy McMakin’s company.
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