This is an interview I was excited to conduct in 2006 for the Art Institute’s Photography magazine Pique which I was very involved with at the time.

Sarah Stolfa was receptive, friendly and very easy to talk with which came as a surprise. I had encountered her as a patron a few times before at McGlinchey’s Tavern in Center City Philadelphia where she worked as a waitress and photographed her series The Regulars. She was known for having -let’s call it, a brusque table manner. That attitude seemed to change as a result of the artistic process as the interview will explain.
She was still working there at the time of this interview, which was conducted at McGlinchey’s before she began her shift. It ran in the magazine’s second issue.

Sarah Stolfa has since published a book of The Regulars series, finished a graduate program at Yale University and has most recently opened the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center in the Kensington section of Philadelphia.
“The Philadelphia Photo Arts Center is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization devoted to the study, practice, and appreciation of photography in the Philadelphia region”.

Here is the interview with photos from the series The Regulars.