–American Playlist: Selections From The University At Albany Art Collections

These photographs are from Slavin’s When Two or More are Gathered 
Together series, which includes photographs of groups such as gun clubs, 
community sports teams, firefighters, and bodybuilders. Slavin has written 
that this work stems from a memory of an early Boy Scout troop photograph 
he took, which taught him about the spontaneity of group photography 
and the individualistic and unique expressions each subject has within a 
group. Although the subjects are dressed uniformly, each boy is posing in 
his own way; to Slavin, it represents a performance. Team sports are a 
constant pull between the individual strengths of players and the need to 
work as a unit to accomplish the task at hand. Slavin is able to capture the 
camaraderie of a group, while keeping sight of the individualism that each 
person possesses.
–Double Play