Tess Petronio Shot Anne Imhof’s ‘Doom’—Now Her Images Are in a Must

Late last year, photographer Tess Petronio left her home in Paris to fly to New York, where she soon joined artist Anne Imhof’s merry band of 50 or so punky performers in Doom , Imhof’s reinterpretation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet at the Park Avenue Armory this past February. Petronio’s primary role was to…. Well, it was left open-ended; the idea was for her to simply show up with her camera and see what happens. The resulting images—off-hours portraits of the cast, dressed in their own clothes, each navigating their own New York—can now be seen in Anne Imhof’s Doom Documented by Tess Petronio , her new book (in fact, her first book ever), published by IDEA. Despite her tender age—Petronio is 21 years old—there’s a sensitivity and maturity to her accomplished image making that