APRIL is a meditation on time’s elusiveness, layers of loss and holding on/letting go. These themes are explored through intimate portraits, vivid moments of stillness and fragments of personal writing. Encounters infused with latent longing and psychic connection – often missed or misread – are noticed and bared without judgement. Created over many years, the work holds past and present in conversation. A deceptively bucolic world shaped by maternal rhythms becomes unsettled through shifts of light and perception, quietly alluding to the persistent disillusion undermining life's promises. About APRIL, New Yorker photo editor Giada De Agostinis wrote, “The way [Rissman] captures light becomes a personal quest and a visual endeavor at the same time, collapsing notions of time and space.”