FRANK: in Focus will feature FRANK guest photographers; Dan Gotlieb, Tama Hochbaum, Tim Walter, and Gadisse Lee.

FRANK: inFocus is proud to be part of the annual Triangle-wide CLICK! Photography Festival showcasing the talents of photographers from around the world.

The month of October is an exciting celebration of photography with FRANK:inFocus “The Click! Photography Festival celebrates the medium of photography and its cultural influence by engaging the photography community with exceptional photo-based works, artists, and programming.”

Please join us for this exciting month filled with engaging photography related events!

Dan Gottlieb, a native New Yorker, studied art and biology (SUNY Buffalo) before relocating to California, attending SDSU, living as an artist and earning a living as a cabinetmaker. It was there that Dan began experiments with alternative photographic processes and a career in museum design. He was NCMA’s design director for 30 years (1990-2020). In his art practice, he developed a unique photographic process of his own design, combining archivally printed photographs with multiple layers of paint and laborious finishing..

Tama Hochbaum is a New York City-born artist and photographer living in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with a background in fine arts and printmaking from Brandeis University and an MFA in painting from Queens College. She worked as a painter for 20 years before focusing on photography, with a central artistic theme of exploring the passage of time and memory through various projects, including her recent work, Over/Time: Imaging Landscape.  

Timothy Walter, is an arts entrepreneur and art photographer based in Durham, NC. His art projects are the creation of striking portraits of friends and performers that give visual voice to experiences of past trauma. The subjects make visible emotions of anger, dismay, grief -- and sometimes resilience and resolve.

Gadisse Lee is a 25-year-old fine art photographer based in North Carolina. She was born and raised in Ethiopia for seven years before coming to the United States. Lee received her BFA in 2022 from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She has had numerous group exhibitions throughout North Carolina including the For Freedoms Project – Lawn Signs, and has had her work published in Stubborn Magazine, The Danger Issue.

Computing The Lens: Research Driven Images for Machine Entangled Lives

This event showcases work at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Photography. Including examples of creative image output and theoretical speculation, this event presents work from the recent international Computing the Lens Open Call. 

Augustus Wendell, Assistant Professor of the Practice, Duke University

Rose Ansari, Graduate Student, Duke University

Warren Hicks Untethered

Warren Hicks is a visual and conceptual artist working in a variety of media including photography, video, sculpture, painting, drawing, and installation. Hicks lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and works in his studio at Golden Belt in Durham.

Completely self-taught, Hicks' artistic evolution has been as unique as his personal revolution. Hicks has morphed through a progression of styles, mediums, and influences—embracing, digesting, and discarding. A restless experimenter with a keen sense of humor, he is constantly pushing himself into new ideas in visual art, writing, and more.

Born and raised in Chickasha, Oklahoma, Hicks studied architectural design at Oklahoma State University. Prior to graduation, he fled Oklahoma under cover of darkness to Miami, Florida to explore opportunities within the music industry. After twelve years of toil and slight hearing loss, Hicks returned to architectural drafting and relocated to Chapel Hill. In 2002, at the ripe age of 36, he began painting.

Although Hicks established himself as an abstract painter, his recent forays into photography, sculpture, and conceptual art have been well received. Hicks' work has been shown throughout the U.S. as well as in Beijing, China and Skopje, Macedonia.

When he isn't making his own art, Hicks is a freelance art preparator for museums and corporate art collections. Museum clients include: NC Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC; Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC; CAM Raleigh, Raleigh, NC; Ackland Art Museum at UNC-Chapel Hill, NC. Some of the artists whose work has passed, but not slipped, through his hands include Picasso, Miro, Calder, El Greco, Rauschenberg, Van Gogh, Wangechi Mutu, Nick Cave, and El Anatsui.

Contact Printing: Van Dyke Brown + Cyanotypes

The virtues of contact printing are many. Because you are doing the coating yourself, you can choose from a variety of sublime fine art papers and even cloth. You can use digital or analog negatives along with found objects like lace, plant life and more. You can use sunlight or a UV exposure unit. Contact printing opens doors to an array of historic processes. In this half day workshop, students work with the oft-underappreciated Van Dyke Brown (VDB) and the celebrated Cyanotype.

 VDB is a 3-part process that results in rich sepia tones with levers to adjust the contrast and color temperature. Cyanotype, less nimble and more expressionistic, is renowned for its arresting Prussian blue. You will walk away having learned about chemistry, how to coat paper, employ UV exposure, make contact prints and finish with archival practices.

PREPARATION: Bring your black and white analog or digital negative(s), no larger than 5X7. If you would like for us to digitally print your negative for you, please select “ADD ON: Digital Negative” in checkout and send us a link to your digital file (TIFF, 300 dpi, 5X7 max). Feel free to bring extra paper (unbuffered, 100% cotton) and/or semi-transparent objects for photograms as well — dried plants, lace, you name it. And, bring a snack/drink for lunch.

No prior darkroom experience is required. Parental consent required for children under 18 years old (minimum age is 15). This class has a min age of 15, however, it is also OK for an adult to bring a child (under 15) as a partner who will not count towards minimum enrollment, for a $50 fee. 

Time: Saturday, Oct 25th: 11am-2:30pm
Maximum capacity: 8
Minimum capacity: 2
Cost: $150 ($125 plus $25 lab fee)
Parent-Child Friendly: Yes
Instructors: Holden Richards & Phyllis B. Dooney

Sign Up here: https://www.photofarmnc.com/events/contact-printing-oct25

Member Artist Panel Talk: 10/25, 10-11am (Panel)

• Featured Artists:

• Barbara Tyroler

• Donna Stubbs
  
  Barbara Tyroler is a photographic image-maker producing collaborative multi-media art projects that address social and cultural issues. As an educator she blends fine art and humanitarian work, which is central to her art practice. As a seasoned professional, Barbara’s art and teachings explore how the lens inspires the journey, how the photographic image evokes feeling and conveys meaning, creating and recreating stories and memories beyond the frame. Her photography is conceived through the synthesis of light, imagination, and technology.
  
  Donna Stubbs has lived and worked in Washington, DC and Chapel Hill, NC most of her life. She graduated from Guilford College in Greensboro, NC and from the Corcoran College of Art + Design in Washington, DC. She has been a practicing artist for over 25 years. In 2020-21, she completed the ART2LIFE Creative Visionary Program with Nicholas Wilton. Currently represented by Frank Gallery in Chapel Hill, NC and 5 Points Gallery in Durham, NC. A member of the Chatham Artists Guild.

Visible History: A Celebration of North Carolina Native American Culture

ARTIST RECEPTION

This exhibition aims to showcase the bountiful culture of our North Carolina Indigenous communities. Our featured artist, Alexandra Williams captures the proud cultural history and representation celebrated at the Dix Park Inter-Tribal Pow Wow. Her photography highlights the rich traditions of North Carolina’s original residents to bring visibility to this vibrant community.

Additionally, we’ve partnered with the Triangle Native American Society (TNAS) to feature works by their member artists. Each unique work is rooted in their cultural history and is each artist’s contribution to carrying on traditions with new perspective.

Click! North Carolina State Fair Photo-Walk: Dust off Mom's Polaroid, Grab Grandpa's Old SLR, or bring your new fangled digital camera. Join Sarah & Thomas from the NC State Crafts Center for an afternoon filled with good old fashioned excitement at the North Carolina State Fair. We suggest purchasing your NC State Fair tickets online to avoid long wait times or arrive early enough prior to the start of the walk for purchasing at the gate.

The photo-walk is Sunday, October 19th meeting at the Waterfall near Dorton Arena at 1:30pm & the walk will be 2pm-4pm. Following the walk, A Photographer's Place will host a gathering from 6:00pm-8:00pm for an evening of conversation and creativity. Participants who used an instant camera, can submit images to be featured in a pop-up exhibition during the gathering.

This photo-walk is a part of the month-long Click! Photography Festival. Please sign up for this photo-walk on Photowalk.Me: https://www.photowalk.me/photowalk/click-nc-state-fair-photo-walk

Burk Uzzle and Roland L. Freeman: Films and Photographs

Saturday, Oct. 11

Wilson Library
UNC Chapel Hill

Uzzle is known for his work for Life Magazine and Magnum Photos; Freeman is remembered for his documentation of life in Black communities and traditional folklife. The exhibition features approximately 80 photos from both photographers’ careers as photojournalists and roughly 50 publications that feature their work. “Parallel Visions” also highlights the way the photographers’ decades-long friendship is intertwined in their work.

“Parallel Visions” includes installations in all three of Wilson Library’s gallery spaces. Prints are arranged chronologically so viewers can experience the work as a photographic biography.

3 – 5 p.m. Galleries open for exhibition viewing. Experience the powerful legacy of two photographers whose work documents more than six decades of American life. Exhibition curators will discuss the lives and photographs of Burk Uzzle and Roland L. Freeman and provide commentary about the selections on view.

5 – 7:45 p.m. Film screening of videos from the Roland Freeman collection plus the documentary F11 and Be There, about the career of Burk Uzzle. A conversation between Photographic Archivist Stephen Fletcher and the filmmaker, Jethro Waters, will follow, along with an audience Q&A.

Click! Raleigh Street Photo-walk: Join Thomas & Sarah from the NC State Crafts Center for an afternoon exploring the streets of Downtown Raleigh looking for photographic opportunities that tell stories.

The photo-walk is Saturday, Oct. 11th meeting at the State Capital Building facing Fayetteville St. at 12:30pm & the walk will be 1pm-3pm. We will end our walk with coffee and conversation at Morning Times.

This photo-walk is a part of the month-long Click! Photography Festival. Please sign up for this photo-walk on Photowalk.Me: https://www.photowalk.me/photowalk/click-raleigh-street-photo-walk

Opening Reception: Christiaan Lopez-Miro

Christiaan Lopez-Miro's exhibition Fractured, which shares its title with his new photobook release, marks a pivotal shift in his journey as a photographic artist.

“Fractured oscillates between unsettling, often ambiguous portraits of Southerners and complicated landscapes… …Lopez-Miro's work resists stereotypes, refusing to oversimplify or pull the viewer into easy narratives. Instead, he presents a complex portrait, one that invites reflection without dictating meaning.” -Vann Thomas Powell

An evening discussion on Oct 21 will be about the process of the publication of Fractured.

Barbara Tyroler October Featured Photographer: "Seeing Trees”

Second Friday Opening Reception October 10, 6-9pm

Barbara Tyroler is a photographic image-maker producing collaborative multi-media art projects that address social and cultural issues. As an educator she blends fine art and humanitarian work, which is central to her art practice. As a seasoned professional, Barbara’s art and teachings explore how the lens inspires the journey, how the photographic image evokes feeling and conveys meaning, creating and recreating stories and memories beyond the frame. Her photography is conceived through the synthesis of light, imagination, and technology.

Artist Statement

As a fine art portrait artist and educator who utilizes pools and water for her backdrops, she is specifically interested in community outreach. The photographic series of portraiture created in pools and lakes throughout the east coast, explores how and why we immerse our bodies in water. The work is collaboratively produced with family and friends, students and colleagues, business clients, and strangers, to record gesture and the human figure, light, pattern, and reflective design. Beneath the surface are the intimate stories she encounters.

Join us for a special, one-time showing of "Always Looking" including an introduction and Q+A with Director Olympia Stone & the film's subject Titus Brooks Heagins.

Always Looking explores the work of photographer Titus Brooks Heagins and the challenging questions his photos pose about the systemic neglect of society’s most vulnerable communities of color. Humanizing yet confrontational, Titus’ photographs document the overlooked: people who, through some intersection of poverty, race or gender/sexual identity, exist as outsiders.

This film dives into Titus’ world, shedding light on the strength it takes to be a marginalized Black photographer capturing the lives of other marginalized folks.

Always Looking also probes the question of “who can tell whose story?” while directing a spotlight on an overlooked, but richly deserving, artist.

Tickets here:

https://www.thechelseatheater.org/movie/always-looking-titus-brooks-heagins

Many grow up learning it’s impolite to talk about politics and religion, but Cornell Watson, a Durham based photographer, has brought the conversation front and center in his new exhibition “God’s Country” at Carrboro’s Peel Gallery.

Walt Whitman’s famous line, "Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)," perfectly fits what Watson’s artwork documents of contemporary America almost two hundred years later. The line between church and state has never been pulled taut, and the increasingly central political and religious tensions reflect the two’s growing entanglement, but then again - have they ever been truly separate?

This September exhibition distills cultural and political clashes within intimate moments of the everyday. Whether in a crowded rally or a bedroom, Cornell’s lens finds humor in coincidence, holds empathy for its subjects, and exposes the devolved Americana around us - a visual melting pot of iconography and capitalism.

"God's Country" is a photographic exploration of the intersection of patriotism and religion in America and how these forces are lived, politicized, commodified, weaponized, and contradicted in America.

- Statement from Cornell Watson

Cornell Watson is known for his captivating documentations of life in action and reaction. He frequently contributes photography to national publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, and Bloomberg. He has also photographed national ad campaigns for companies such as T-Mobile, MeUndies, Bombas, and Adidas. His photography centers Black stories and has been featured in museums such as The Mint Museum, Nasher Museum of Art, and the National Civil Rights Museum.

Please join us Friday, September 12th from 6-9 pm for the opening reception of this exhibition! The event will be held as a part of Chapel Hill/Carrboro’s 2nd Friday Artwalk and include an evening of art, music, and refreshments.

We will also be hosting a Closing Reception with an Artist Q&A on Sunday, October 5th from 3:00pm - 5:00pm.

Artist Talk: John Rosenthal

John Rosenthal has been widely exhibited in the United States, including exhibitions at The National Humanities Center, The National Academy of Sciences in Washington D.C., and Boston’s Panopticon Gallery. His articles have appeared in many journals and magazines, amongst them The Sun Magazine, Five Points and The Huffington Post. In 1998 a collection of Mr. Rosenthal’s photographs, Regarding Manhattan, was published by Safe Harbor Books, and in 2015 Safe Harbor published his 2007 collection of New Orleans photographs, AFTER: The Silence of the Lower 9th Ward. In the 1990s, Mr. Rosenthal was a regular commentator on NPR’s All Things Considered.

Empowering the Analog Archive:
A presentation by Peter Krogh

A demonstration on using creating fast, efficient, high resolution camera scans to convert analog archives into accessible digital files. These files can be optimized for your Digital Asset Management by using apps like Lightroom, Negative Lab Pro and Mediagraph’s keywording and powerful composable A.I. to mobilize your archive with DAM and maximize its usefulness and accessibility. Take your archive to the next level.

The 2025 Click! 120 Photography Experience!

To further enhance the opening weekend experience Click! has invited a specially curated group of exhibitors to showcase their products and services. Plans include product demonstrations, panel discussions, exhibits and more!

The Expo will take place October 4th & 5th at the Downtown Durham Convention Center.

Sunday, October 5, 2025

Click! Exhibitor Displays & Demonstrations

10:00am - 6:00pm Ballroom B

Check out the latest and greatest photography tools and materials. Product talks and demonstrations throughout the day.

9:00am - 12:00pm Click! Academy Workshop: Preparing Work for Publication Part 2:
Making a Zine with Stella Kramer

Stella Kramer is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photo editor and creative strategist based in New York City who works with photographers to help them shape their portfolios and websites, plan marketing campaigns, and see their work in a new light. Stella has worked for major publications, including The New York Times, People magazine, Sports Illustrated and Newsweek. While at The New York Times, Stella was part of the team that won both the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography and the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. She also curates, teaches, reviews portfolios and blogs about photography.

11:00am - 12:00pm Empowering the Analog Archive: A presentation by Peter Krogh, Mediagraph Chief Product Officer

A demonstration on using creating fast, efficient, high resolution camera scans to convert analog archives into accessible digital files. These files can be optimized for your Digital Asset Management by using apps like Lightroom, Negative Lab Pro and Mediagraph’s keywording and powerful composable A.I. to mobilize your archive with DAM and maximize its usefulness and accessibility. Take your archive to the next level.

2:00pm - 3:00pm Artist Talk: John Rosenthal

John Rosenthal has been widely exhibited in the United States, including exhibitions at The National Humanities Center, The National Academy of Sciences in Washington D.C., and Boston’s Panopticon Gallery. His articles have appeared in many journals and magazines, amongst them The Sun Magazine, Five Points and The Huffington Post. In 1998 a collection of Mr. Rosenthal’s photographs, Regarding Manhattan, was published by Safe Harbor Books, and in 2015 Safe Harbor published his 2007 collection of New Orleans photographs, AFTER: The Silence of the Lower 9th Ward. In the 1990s, Mr. Rosenthal was a regular commentator on NPR’s All Things Considered.

Jenny Jacklin Statton & Sarah Blesener

sponsored by Photo Farm

What do our images reveal about how we see? How does our relationship with certain images shift over time? And how might photography become a space for self reflection, understanding, and deeper connection with others?

This one-hour interactive session, led by photographers and visual researchers Sarah Blesener and Jenny Jacklin Stratton, invites participants to bring a print or digital photograph (or two)—from their professional work, personal life, or family archive—as a starting point for shared exploration and reflection. We’ll spend time reflecting on and reworking a photograph, while engaging with artworks and images that help bridge the space between looking inward and seeing outward. We’ll explore how photographs not only document the external world but also carry traces of our inner landscapes—our values, emotions, questions, and assumptions.

Blesener and Stratton will share learnings and insights from Enter/Exit, a project of methodologies, critiques, poetry and art outlining collaborative ways of working in visual journalism and documentary media. Published as a toolkit and framework, Enter/Exit offers strategies and approaches for photojournalists, artists, and practitioners, especially those working on sensitive stories. This session will consider how looking inward can be a practice of care: toward ourselves, toward each other, and toward the stories we choose to tell.

Artist website: www.tacet-eye.com | instagram: @tacet.eye

photographs by Jenny Jacklin Stratton and Sarah Blensener

 Sponsored by:

Photobook Dummies is a monthly gathering where collectors, creators, and enthusiasts of photobooks come together to survey this unique art form. We explore a different theme each month, with attendees bringing books from their collections to share and discuss. Our meetups are held in various revolving locations across Durham and Orange County. While many attendees are photographers, anyone with an appreciation for or curiosity about photobooks is welcome to attend.

For this meetup, Photobook Dummies follows the prompt: “Somewhere Along the Line” Inspired by Joshua Dudley Greer’s Somewhere Along the Line  (2019, Kehrer Verlag), our October meetup will celebrate those who slowly and deliberately dwell within the spaces they inhabit.  

Orange County photographer @insta.holden.richards will share some insights and prints from his book “Riverwalk: A Decade Along the Eno.”

The 2025 Click! 120 Photography Experience!

To further enhance the opening weekend experience Click! has invited a specially curated group of exhibitors to showcase their products and services. Plans include product demonstrations, panel discussions, exhibits and more!

The Expo will take place October 4th & 5th at the Downtown Durham Convention Center.

2ND Annual (Mostly) Film Photo Walk

Caleb “Bad Flashes”Knueven

Will lead a film-centric photo walk around downtown Durham. Caleb is a passionate film photographer who’s dedicated his life to promoting the joys of film photography. Check out his YouTube channel HERE.

The walk will will begin at the Durham Convention Center at 10:00am on Saturday, October 4th. Rain or Shine!

The walk is made possible by the generous support of Freestyle Photo Imaging and Supplies. It is free and open to the public but registration is required.

Registration open now!

Don’t own a film camera? No Worries! All are welcome.

Click! Exhibitor Displays & Demonstrations

12:00pm - 8:00pm Ballroom B

Check out the latest and greatest photography tools and materials. Product talks and demonstrations throughout the day.

9:00am - 12:00pm Click! Academy Workshop: Preparing Work for Publication Part 1:
Editing and Sequencing with Stella Kramer

Stella Kramer is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photo editor and creative strategist based in New York City who works with photographers to help them shape their portfolios and websites, plan marketing campaigns, and see their work in a new light. Stella has worked for major publications, including The New York Times, People magazine, Sports Illustrated and Newsweek. While at The New York Times, Stella was part of the team that won both the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography and the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. She also curates, teaches, reviews portfolios and blogs about photography.

Click! Academy Workshop 10:00am - 12:00pm & 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Creating Images with Impact with Pete Coco

Book Signing: Linda Foard Roberts - 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Linda Foard Roberts’ work is deeply personal, rooted in memory, family and local histories, combined with philosophical inquiries about life, death, and basic human rights. Using 8" x 10" and 5" x 7" cameras and preferring the imperfections of old lenses and the history that is untold within them, her work is metaphorical and layered, intending to cross language and cultural barriers. 

In 2020 Roberts received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography. In 2016 Roberts completed her first monograph, PASSAGE, published by Radius Books, debuting at Paris Photo with signings at AIPAD in New York and Hauser and Wirth. In 2017 she was the honored guest speaker at the Visionary Women's presentation which historically inspires and supports strong women. 

Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States and internationally including Australia, Guatemala, Argentina, and Germany. She is represented by SOCO Gallery in Charlotte, North Carolina and Sol del RIO in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

Roberts lives and works in Charlotte, North Carolina

Photobook Dummies Meetup - 4:00pm - 6:00pm

Photobook Dummies is a monthly gathering where collectors, creators, and enthusiasts of photobooks come together to survey this unique art form. We explore a different theme each month, with attendees bringing books from their collections to share and discuss. Our meetups are held in various revolving locations across Durham and Orange County. While many attendees are photographers, anyone with an appreciation for or curiosity about photobooks is welcome to attend.

For this meetup, Photobook Dummies follows the prompt: “Somewhere Along the Line” Inspired by Joshua Dudley Greer’s Somewhere Along the Line  (2019, Kehrer Verlag), our October meetup will celebrate those who slowly and deliberately dwell within the spaces they inhabit.  

Orange County photographer @insta.holden.richards will share some insights and prints from his book “Riverwalk: A Decade Along the Eno.”

Photo Conversations: LOOKING INWARD: Conversations Between Our Images and Ourselves 5:30pm - 6:30pm


Jenny Jacklin Statton & Sarah Blesener

sponsored by Photo Farm

What do our images reveal about how we see? How does our relationship with certain images shift over time? And how might photography become a space for self reflection, understanding, and deeper connection with others?

This one-hour interactive session, led by photographers and visual researchers Sarah Blesener and Jenny Jacklin Stratton, invites participants to bring a print or digital photograph (or two)—from their professional work, personal life, or family archive—as a starting point for shared exploration and reflection. We’ll spend time reflecting on and reworking a photograph, while engaging with artworks and images that help bridge the space between looking inward and seeing outward. We’ll explore how photographs not only document the external world but also carry traces of our inner landscapes—our values, emotions, questions, and assumptions.

Join us for Happy Hour - 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Through This Lens Gallery hosts a photographer’s rummage sale / swap meet. Bring your goods to sell or trade!

TO BIND ANEW: Reimagining Our Photographic Archives
Jenny Jacklin Stratton & Sarah Blesener

To bind anew: this is an act of love.

This hands-on workshop invites participants to explore personal and institutional visual archives through working with alternative archival methodologies that center care, creativity, and collective healing. Using visual storytelling, sensory memory, and objects of personal significance—such as heirlooms, flowers, and memorabilia—we will investigate how archival materials can be reactivated as tools for reflection, recovery, and reimagining. By emphasizing participatory approaches and post-custodial archival thinking, this workshop encourages attendees to consider archives not as static repositories of the past, but as living, evolving spaces that can support restorative narratives and foster communal memory work.

Together, we will look at poetry, literature, art, and photography. We will restitch, paint, pick flowers, tear things up. We will reimagine, reshare, release and hold on to our archives. In addition to engaging with stories and photographs from our own archives, we will also contribute to a collective archive of our shared experience and wisdom. Participants will have the option to also have their archival (re)creations digitized. 

Open for all skill levels and individuals wanting to engage with their professional, personal or familial photographic archives.

Participants please come prepared with: printed reproductions of archival photographs to work with (all colors, shapes and sizes welcome). Additionally, we encourage bringing additional archival materials outside of the photograph: letters, journals, notes, memorabilia, scraps (reproductions preferable).

Materials : paint, tape, scissors, pens, and extra paper. Please feel free to bring your own supplies if you have them.

Instructors: Jenny Jacklin Stratton & Sarah Blesener (in partnership with Tacet Eye)
Date: Sat, Oct 4, 10am – 3pm (bring your own lunch)
Maximum capacity: 12
Minimum capacity: 5
Cost: $250+ $20 lab fee (includes basic materials + supplies)

Sign Up Here: https://www.photofarmnc.com/events/bindanew-f25

Artist Reception: Fern Nesson
"Music of the Spheres"

Fern L. Nesson is a fine art photographer who lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She received her MFA in Photography from Maine Media College (2018), a J.D. (Harvard Law School (1971), and an M.A. in American History (Brandeis University 1987).

Fern's spare photographs distill reality to its essence, highlighting its energy through the use of form and abstraction. She has had solo exhibitions in Arles, France, the MIT Museum, the MetaLab at Harvard, the Beacon Gallery in Boston, the Auburn Gallery in Los Angeles, Through This Lens Gallery in Durham, NC, Rockport, Maine and on artsy.net. Additionally, her work has been selected for numerous juried exhibitions in the U.S. and in Rome, Barcelona, and Budapest.

Fern's photobook, Signet of Eternity, received a 10th Annual Photobooks Award from the Davis-Orton Gallery and her book, WORD, received the 12th Annual Photobooks Award from the Davis-Orton Gallery. She writes historical photo essays for The LivingNewDeal.org, and photo essays on art and culture for BonjourParis.com.

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78/46 Analog Work: Elemental Presence

Exhibition Opening October 3, 2025

Ray Bidegain
Amanda Tinker
Andy Mattern

There are certain photographs that defy translation. You can try to scan them, photograph them, reproduce them in a book or on a screen, but something essential always slips through the cracks. Platinum and platinum/palladium prints are like that. They aren’t just visual; they’re physical, elemental. You need to see them in person to truly understand what they are. This is why the 78/46 exhibition came into being.

As the editor of Analog Forever Magazine, I’ve spent years celebrating the beauty and resilience of analog photographic practices. I’ve written about platinum prints, published them, even obsessed over how to best present them in print. But no matter how carefully we reproduce them, they never quite land the way they do in person. And that’s not a failure, it’s a reminder.

78/46 refers to the atomic numbers of platinum (78) and palladium (46). It’s a nod to the chemistry at the heart of this work, but also to the artistry. It is the transformation of metal into emotion, of materials into meaning. Each of the three photographers in this exhibition brings their own voice to the process. One might lean into narrative, another toward abstraction, a third toward the conceptual or poetic. But all of them share the discipline and devotion that this medium demands.

Ray Bidegain has spent decades perfecting the quiet language of stillness. His images often explore the human figure and constructed scenes with a painter’s eye, capturing moments suspended like lucid dreams. Rooted in large-format film and the platinum/palladium process, Bidegain’s prints are timeless meditations rendered in luminous tones.

Amanda Tinker weaves photography with emotion, using the platinum/palladium process to explore presence, absence, and the landscape of memory. Her images often walk the line between documentation and reverie, finding magic in the mundane and the sacred in silence. She brings an intimacy to the process that resonates far beyond the frame.

Andy Mattern approaches the medium with a conceptual lens, examining the material and cultural legacies of photographic history. His recent work explores the nature of the print itself, questioning how we perceive and preserve photographic objects. Mattern brings intellect to a process that is often viewed through a purely aesthetic lens, pushing its boundaries with subtlety and insight.

And while their voices differ, what connects them is the physical act of making. Platinum and
palladium printing is slow, deliberate work. It asks for intention. It demands patience. You coat
each sheet by hand. You expose by feel and instinct. You develop in trays, not clicks. It’s
photography as craft andritual.

This is more than just an exhibition. It’s a statement about presence and about showing up,
slowing down, and connecting with something real. It’s a way of saying: look at what the artists
hand can still do. Look at what happens when artists commit to materials, time, and tradition.
Not to replicate the past, but to speak from within it.

I’ve always believed in the power of these prints, but I’ve also known how easy it is to overlook
them in a world ruled by speed and pixels.78/46is my way of pushing back. Of saying, this
matters. Of making space for the prints, the artists, andfor the people willing to stand in front of
them and really see.

So come closer. Let your eyes adjust. Let the prints speak in the language they were meant to.
~ Michael Kirchoff
Editor, Analog Forever Magazine

Katrina Remembrances- 20 years after

Featuring work by:

Bryce Lankard

John Rosenthal

 Donn Young

At the 20-year anniversary of the devastation that Hurricane Katrina wrought on New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, I am partnering with photographers John Rosenthal and Donn Young to present our views on the aftermath of the Hurricane. Due to the recent flooding in Hillsborough, NC, our original venue, the Eno Mills Gallery has closed. We have changed the date and location. The exhibition and a variety of speakers will now be at A Photographer's Place in Raleigh, NC and will take place in October during the Click! Photography Festival.

 Louisiana artist poet Katie Bowler Young. Katie will read from her book "Through Water With Ease."

Not to Be Missed!

Join the Nasher Museum Gallery Guides to explore Coming into Focus: A Snapshot of Photography at the Nasher. Spanning photography that entered the Nasher collection from 1972 to today, this exhibition showcases people, places and things that were captured on a variety of methods as photographic technology evolved and blurred the lines between art and science.

The museum’s photography collection originated in 1972, when Duke University Museum of Art purchased a portrait of artist Barbara S. Thompson by noted North Carolina photographer and educator John Menapace. Twenty years later, Duke University purchased its second photograph: Cindy Sherman’s Untitled #140, depicting a human-pig hybrid creature and part of the celebrated artist’s portrayal of female characters in classic fairy tales. The opening of the Nasher Museum in 2005 initiated a more focused approach to collecting photography building upon these two earlier acquisitions. Within its first decade, the museum acquired significant groups of works by Andy Warhol, Barkley L. Hendricks, and Mike Disfarmer, among many others, as it built a robust collection of national, international, and regional photography.

More recently the Nasher has added over 2,000 photographs to its collection that allow us, for the first time, to chronicle a broad historical sweep of the medium from its dawn in the 1830s and 40s to more recent innovative, experimental approaches. A five-year donation of over 1,500 photographs by Linda and Charles Googe (A.B. ’84) has more than doubled the museum’s photography holdings and included works by the best-known practitioners from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, such as Edouard Baldus, Ilse Bing, Henri Cartier-Bresson, André Kertész, Arthur Rothstein, Nadar, and Edward Weston. Coming into Focus: A Snapshot of Photography at the Nasher celebrates these gifts and other acquisitions, highlighting a sampling of gems and illuminating a bright future of continued collecting and presenting of photography in innovative and ambitious ways.

Coming into Focus: A Snapshot of Photography at the Nasher was organized by Ellen C. Raimond, Associate Curator of Academic Initiatives and Marshall N. Price, Chief Curator and Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art., with assistance from Nasher interns, Charles Blocksidge, III (’25) and Jordan Moyd (Robertson Scholar ’26, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), and Ghita Basurto-Covarrubias (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, ‘26).

This exhibition is made possible by The Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Family Fund for Exhibitions; the Frank Edward Hanscom Endowment; the Janine and J. Tomilson Hill Family; the Neely Family Fund; the E.T. Rollins Jr. and Frances P. Rollins Fund; the J. Horst and Ruth Mary Meyer Fund; and the K. Brantley and Maxine E. Watson Endowment Fund.

Click! Plein Air returns to Moore Square in Raleigh this year from October 1-30.

Join us for the opening celebration for this years Click! outdoor art exhibition, Plein Air! 35 artists from the Triangle and around the world. Several local artists will be on hand to discuss their work

Join us for day two of our Click! Academy printing masterclass. More than just a how-to class, this course will emphasize the digital print as a unique art form in which the choice of inkjet paper to print on makes the difference between an ordinary photo and an extraordinary piece of artwork.

The class will be held in Raleigh at A Photographers Place. 5100 Lacy Ave. Suite 100 Raleigh, NC 27609

For more details and to sign up, go to the Click! Academy page.

Join us for day one of our Click! Academy printing masterclass. More than just a how-to class, this course will emphasize the digital print as a unique art form in which the choice of inkjet paper to print on makes the difference between an ordinary photo and an extraordinary piece of artwork.

The class will be held in Raleigh at A Photographers Place. 5100 Lacy Ave. Suite 100 Raleigh, NC 27609

For more details and to sign up go to the Click! Academy page.

Frank Gallery Frank in Focus
Artist Reception: October 19, 2024

Meet the artists for the 2024 edition of Frank in Focus: Ashlie Johnson Coggins, Peter Filene, Dan Gotlieb, Barbara Tyroler

Ashlie Johnson Coggins is an artist, who enjoys thinking and learning about human centered design, storytelling, environmentalism, art, culture, and the ways people create identity and connection in the digital world. 

Peter Filene taught U.S. history at the University of North Carolina. Nows lives and teaches at Carol Woods Retirement Community, volunteering for Meals on Wheels, member of FRANK Gallery and recently published two books.

Dan Gotlieb’s photo-generated work that investigates the subjective boundaries between environmental disruptions and human dislocation. “Having spent forty years creating cultural spaces and environments for art in the public realm, I now focus my creative life on personal perspectives that convey a subjective, often “blurry” aesthetic to depict nature and the human condition void of edges or boundaries. Visual ambiguity and mystery are core to my picture-making, as are a deep interest in physical and environmental sciences, and material process of picture making.”

Barbara Tyroler has a lifelong love of creating portraiture for constructing memories, rendering the figure as art abstraction within the landscape. Her current work addresses the concept of home, serving local organizations that serve the elderly, children, and families.