Molly LANDRETH + Jenny RIFFLE first came to focus on photography collaboratively in Mount Vernon, Washington. Together they created a book of self-portraits that explored ideas of sexuality and self-representation in their rural hometown.  That was the beginning.  Now they are once more working collaboratively to create strong, unique portraits in vibrant and unusual spaces.  They have recently received an Honorable Mention for “Editorial Image of the Year,” in American Photo Magazine, as well as an Honorable Mention from the Prix de la Photographie in Paris.  LANDRETH+RIFFLE live and work in Seattle, WA.  They are both film and digitally savvy.

LANDRETH received a B.A. in Studio Art from Scripps College in Claremont, California.  She studied a variety of subjects, especially cultivating her love for photography, digital & feminist art and art history.  She later received a M.F.A. in Photography and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts in New York City where she began her current project, Embodiment.  This project is a group of portraits that explores and aims to create a feeling of what it means to be queer today.  She is currently exhibiting nationally.

RIFFLE received her B.A. in Photography from Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York where she worked with masters such as Steven Shore, Larry Fink and An-My Le.  For her thesis exhibition she created thirty environmental portraits of her family, friends and fellow classmates, which laid the foundation to her current project, Temporarily Mine.  This project is an ongoing investigation into the practice of empathy and the psychological spaces of those most dear to her.  She is currently exhibiting nationally.

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Heffner Management

Jade Tree Records

Suicide Squeeze Records

Click Pop Records

Fantastic Plastic Vanity Queens

You and Me Records

SB Northwest