Anthony Lepore uses themes of family, pets, church and sex to explore people’s desire to possess and connect with the world around them. He photographs strangers whom he responds to, friends, and people from his past. Though the subjects know they are being photographed, they are not staged, and Lepore waits with his camera to capture the right gesture or moment. The pictures are made in the subject’s homes which often become display cases for their wants and obsessions. There is a tension in Lepore’s photographs between a critical look at these searches for meaning, and a sympathetic eye that captures the quirks of his subjects with humor.

Lepore grew up in California, where he frequently returns to photograph, and currently lives and works in New York. He received his MFA from Yale University in 2005. This past summer he attended the residency program at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine.