Star photographer Tyrell Hampton recreates the feeling of being at a fabulous party for his first solo show.
“Studio 54 is one of my favorite places in the whole world,” the photographer Tyrell Hampton says. “If I could die and go back there, I would in a second.”
If this comment leads you to assume that Hampton was present for the club’s heyday in the 1970s, tearing it up on the dance floor with Grace Jones and Liza Minnelli, snapping photographs of Cher and Elton John, don’t be confused—Hampton, a Philadelphia native now based in New York City, is 24 years old. But despite his tender age, Hampton is one of the most in-demand photographers right now.
Hampton’s work examines the freedom people feel in safe spaces, and the power nostalgia can hold, especially when it comes to party memories. This notion is the essence of Hampton’s first solo show, titledwhich is now on view at the newly opened not-for-profit space SN37 Gallery in Manhattan’s South Street Seaport.
Via Zoom from his Brooklyn apartment a few days prior to the opening, Hampton tells me how he dove into his archive to choose a selection of images that evoke the feeling of being at a party with the photographer as he winds his way through its guests. “The way we formed the show was to have you walk through the space, demonstrating these moments that I look for in a party,” he says. “I like to think I live vicariously through all the people I photograph.
“That’s how I look for images,” Hampton says. “I think about how people go into these spaces and they’re just free. I’m always thinking about being liberated.” As a teenager, Hampton dreamed of moving to New York to launch a successful career, basing his idea of the city on pop culture tentpoles of the aughts like
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