Wallpaper* has always been inspired by collectives, however informal, that lift each other up while remaining grounded along the way. Here, photographer Caroline Tompkins, one-eighth of this (mostly) New York-based cohort of photographer friends – featured in our Wallpaper* USA 300, a guide to creative America and the Wallpaper* August 2023 print issue – shares insights into their past collaborative decade. Read on for the group’s back-and-forth conversation, spanning ‘The American Dream’, romanticism, Craigslist, hurricanes, the realm of possibility, and photographic predecessors.
