My Last Day at Seventeen

Assembly and Sasha Wolf Projects present “My Last Day at Seventeen,” the genesis NFT collection by an American photographer Doug DuBois. Combining portraits, spontaneous encounters and collaborative performances, the images in "My Last Day at Seventeen" hover between documentary and fiction. Doug DuBois was first introduced to a group of teenagers from the Russell Heights housing estate while he was an artist-in-residence in Cobh, on the southwest coast of Ireland. He was fascinated by the insular neighborhood, in which "everyone seems to be someone's cousin, former girlfriend, or spouse." DuBois gained entry when two participants of a workshop he taught took him to a local hangout spot, opening his eyes to a world of not-quite-adults, struggling through the last days of their childhood. Over the course of five years, DuBois returned to Russell Heights examining the uncertainties of growing up in Ireland today while highlighting the unique relationship between artist and subject.

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Artist

Doug DuBois

Doug DuBois is an American photographer based in Syracuse, NY. His photographs are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in NY; SFMOMA in San Francisco; J. Paul Getty Museum and LACMA in Los Angeles;The Museum of Fine Art in Houston; the Library of Congress in Washington DC; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. DuBois has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, The National Endowment for the Arts, SITE Santa Fe, Light Work, and The John Gutmann Foundation. He has exhibited at The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles; The Aperture Foundation, The Museum of Modern Art and Higher Pictures in New York; SITE, Santa Fe; New Langton Arts in San Francisco; PARCO Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; Museo D’arte Contemporanea in Rome, Italy; and The Irish Museum of Modern Art, The Crawford Art Gallery and the Gallery of Photography in Ireland. Doug DuBois received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and is an associate professor at Syracuse University.

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Sasha Wolf Projects

Sasha Wolf Projects is a private art space that specializes in the advocacy and placement of photographic art by some of the most exciting emerging, mid and late-career photographers and process artists. All of the gallery artists are in important private and public collections including: Museum of Modern Art (NY), Getty Museum (Los Angeles), National Gallery of Art ( Washington, DC),  Nelson-Atkins (St Louis. MO) and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art among others.

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