Mango Season: Jenia Fridlyand & John Gossage

On Saturday, Sept 26, Jenia Fridlyand discusses her new book Mango Season with friend and collaborator John Gossage. In Mango Season, Fridlyand traces the uncanny parallels between the contemporary Cuban landscape and that of her Soviet upbringing.

Mango Season is one of a trilogy published by Fridlyand's and Gossage's new imprint, The Agency. We're excited to host these two visionaries of photobook publishing for a true meeting of the minds.

Space is limited so an RSVP is strongly encouraged.

Jenia Fridlyand grew up in the Soviet Union in the years just prior to perestroika. Visiting Cuba in the second decade of the twenty-first century, then, felt like an uncanny homecoming. While both tangible and familiar, the grim fabric of the communist quotidian kept unravelling for Fridlyand under the bright, tropical sun. With a large-format camera and a photographic practice rooted in the American tradition, Fridlyand traveled throughout the island during several extended trips. She intuitively trained her lens on moments and scenes with the potential of holding both the known and the novel—from a pair of donkeys silhouetted against hilltops, a customer at a barber shop and a pair of rocking chairs seen through an open door, to drops of sweat on a man’s curved back and sweet fruit hanging ripe on a tree.