Tod Papageorge (Emeritus Director of Photography at the Yale School of Art) & Lisa Kereszi (Assistant Director in Photography at Yale) interviewed by WPKN's Valerie Richardson

Valerie Richardson speaks with Tod Papageorge, emeritus director of photography at the Yale School of Art, and Lisa Kereszi, assistant director in photography at Yale, about At the Beach + In the Pool: On Influence, a new exhibition at MoCA Westport. The show pairs Papageorge’s iconic black-and-white photographs of 1970s–80s Los Angeles beachgoers with work by 41 of his former Yale MFA students—now Guggenheim Fellows—offering a compelling meditation on photographic mentorship, influence, and legacy.

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