New Catalogue

Tiger Afternoon was originally the name of a cardboard café created by the two young daughters of an artist friend of New Catalogue’s. The café, made from a discarded appliance box, did not last long so we adopted the title for this project. We thought that Tiger Afternoon applied well to the moment in youth when one’s social and sexual independence was being defined. Our assistant Kristie had been photographing her girlfriend Elizabeth for school projects. We asked Elizabeth if she would participate. We hired her for six weeks and she became the anchor for the project. A lot of the images were improvised on the spot. We later realized that we were directly influenced by our mutual obsessions with the films of John Hughes and Jean-Luc Godard.