Tony Wilde is 23 years old and still loves pop punk.

MOSSLESS: Your mentor was Daniel Power. How was your experience with him?
TONY WILDE: My experience with Daniel was great. I was really glad Stephen Frailey didn’t pair me up with a photographer….I’ve gotten so sick of talking about photographs with other photographers. But yeah what can I say Daniel is really smart and knows what he is talking about, his feedback about my work was really interesting…it was something new and refreshing that I wasn’t getting at my critiques at SVA. He really brought some new ideas to the table about what Im doing with this work and where it can actually go. 

ML: Can you tell me something about this huge portrait you have up in the Mentor show?
TW: The photograph that is hanging in the mentor show is part of an ongoing series for over a year now, yet with no title. It involves history, in the way that I am making the model sit as he or she would have had to sit for a photograph back in the 19th century. A reverse of technology if you will? taking a state of the art camera and treating it as if it was a box camera with a pinhole lens. Im still trying to figure it all out. 

ML: What has your most memorable moment been at SVA?
TW: That would be May 12th 2011 when I graduate. 

ML: What are you going to be doing this summer and onwards?
TW: Hopefully getting a job at BOX Studios as a master printer for Pascal Dangin, moving into a loft, driving my VW, Surfing a lot, and working on new work, and enjoying life.