BOOK:Anthony Tafuro-Where YA At,SUN Publications

Born in Long Island on 31/12/1989, Anthony Tafuro moved to New York City in Sept. 2008 and completed a BFA, at Parsons-The New School for Design in 2012. “Where YA At” is the second segment in Tafuro’s trade collection for SUN.  The contents take place in both the real and digital world.  Photographs are skewed to feel constructed, and paired with images made in multiple open world/online video games.  These moments are crafted to feel more natural than some images taken throughout the actual world.  The book is separated into seven chapters that depict the life cycle that one goes through, at a fast pace and showing a great deal of energy.  Playing as fake characters allows us to have a slow realization and awareness of the multiple lives we get to live.  Tafuro sat through countless online matches on mostly GTA V, and Halo to gather around 80 rolls of color negative.  This isn’t counting the vast amount of additional imagery that was taken between 2015-2017 throughout the real world, and edited into this project.–Efi Michalarou