image by Ted Westby

image by Angela Svarda

image by S. Renée Jones

We welcome guest artist Ted Westby, a portrait artist by trade who spent many years in his Atlanta-based studio doing commercial image-making. His project Dirty Digital is a love letter to the dustier side of photography. Rejecting the polished aesthetics of his primary work, he used monitors to re-photograph his previous work. Playing with light reflections and digital textures, his vision is both glamorous, cinematic, and murky!

Three group shows will be in display:

Gridlock: Participants create grids out of themes of their choice, from portraits to street objects to buildings, and more. Inspired by the work of Bernd and Hill Becher, we want to give people a chance to express themselves in a series of images in which the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

Fixing a Shadow: Before pixels and digital sensors took over the world, photography was often described as “fixing a shadow,” in reference to the chemical fixer used in darkrooms to neutralize the paper’s sensitivity to light. In the group show, we asked our participants to create images that revel in the shade and bask in the shapes created by the absence of light.

Fabricating Evidence: This exhibit asks participants to investigate their idea of the “forensic” in photography. Whether it be some form of crime in progress, real or imaginary, or mysterious items that indicate some sort of mischief, or hand-crafted detective boards, we bring to you some admissible photos for your witnessing pleasure.