-January 8 to February 2, 2025

Reception, Thursday January 9, 2025, 6PM to 8PM

-Michael Alvis, Hidden in Plain Sight, Roadside Attractions

Many people have the goal of photographing beautiful iconic places that they’ve seen in travel guidebooks, on social media, or printed in coffee table books. I, too, have been guilty of making such photographs, but I prefer to explore the back roads, avoid the obvious, investigate narrow alleys, in order to uncover things that are overlooked, forgotten, and even unappealing to some people. I find a certain “wabi-sabi” beauty in the mishmash, hodgepodge, and confused jumble of things decorating decayed walls and neglected buildings. I’m talking about the kind of visual clutter a person typically avoids at all costs in a photograph because it would detract from a stereotypical or clichéd postcard image. What is unsightly to some viewers may appeal to other people in a completely different light. There can also be beauty in the decay of places and the “accidental art” that is discovered; I hope these images draw you in to observe what you weren’t expecting. This exhibition is a small sample of photographs made in Japan & the USA from my long-term Roadsides Attraction series.

-Portrait Assignment; The Wilson Camera Club

The Wilson Camera Club has 70 members practicing photography at various levels from enlightened amateurs to  professional photographers who make a daily living with photography. The American Center for Photographers has assigned the club to create an exhibition of b/w portraits to open the new year as a way to stimulate creativity among its members. Furthermore, many portraits represent local personalities so the subject matter should be very popular among our visitors.

-February 5 to March 2, 2025

Reception, Thursday February 2, 2025, 6PM to 8PM

-Melissa O'Shaughnessy, Perfect Strangers - New York City Street Photographs

I have been photographing New York City for the past ten years. While many of these photographs were included in my monograph of the same name (published by Aperture in 2020), the project is ongoing. 
I am perpetually inspired by the people, the energy, and the general chaos of Manhattan, always on the hunt for those moments that reveal something of our human character--and the time and the place that we live in.
 

- Ilvy Njiokiktjien, Cohousing as a Solution

Choosing has become increasingly popular in the West. More and more people are choosing to live in small communities or in shared homes, whether it be parents moving in with their adult children, friends buying a shred farmhouse together, or larger structures where 15 families live together with shared spaces and amenities.

Over the past three years, I have documented eight different choosing communities in the Netherlands and Belgium and I aim to provide a glimpse into why people want to return to this lifestyle.

-March 5 to March 30, 2025

Reception, Thursday March 6, 2025, 6PM to 8PM

-John Anderson, Coming Home - The Beautiful Game at Meadow Lane

For seven years I have been photographing the gathering of the local community to support the oldest football league club in the world – Notts County. As a child I loved matchday - the emotion, the drama, the magic and the sense of belonging. For me, football can represent a coming together, finding an escape from the mundane and even occasional moments of the sublime, This is what I have returned to as an adult – to endeavour to capture all of this, and to rediscover a sense of wonder, belonging and connection.

-Scott Strazzante, Baseball's Last Dive Bar

Scott Strazzante offers a unique and intimate perspective of the final decade of A’s games at the storied Oakland Coliseum. Strazzante captured the emotions of the fans and the essence of a ballpark that has seen countless unforgettable moments and the enduring spirit of a team that has become synonymous with Oakland pride. Each photograph is a testament to the magic of baseball, the vibrant culture of the A's, and the raw beauty of a stadium that has been a witness to both triumph and heartache. Through these images, Strazzante allows viewers to experience the Coliseum not just as a venue, but as a living, breathing entity, brimming with history and emotion.

-April 2, 2025 to April 27, 2025

Reception, Thursday April 3, 2025, 6PM to 8PM

-Ahmet Sel, Oriental Illusions

The photography series ‘Oriental Illusions’ investigates the west’s orientalist gaze rooted in the past with reference to its relevance today and in so doing reflects on our subconscious at present.

These photographs, which live and breathe between two worlds, are much more than the reflection of a memory frozen in time. Ultimately, they are about the uneasy confrontation of a postmodern and conservative society with nudity and eroticism. They are a portrait and a glimpse into one of the most traditional spaces in modern-day Turkey.

-Stephen Shames, A Lifetime in Photography

I have been a photographer for more than five decades. I traversed five continents, witnessing tragedy and triumph. Much of my photography is about children and families in distress with a focus on identity and family: what tears us apart and binds us together—violence and abuse, but also sensuality, love, hope, and transcendence. I try to convey pure emotion in my pictures, to get behind the scenes, to find a different angle so my pictures reveal what is beneath the surface. Having a distinct vision allows a photographer to be more poetic. While my work fits into the documentary tradition, it is also about the edges of experience, where things are more ambiguous and non rational: the inner moments, where public events meet our private fears and hopes.

-April 30 to May 25, 2025

Reception, Thursday May 8, 2025 6PM to 8PM

-France Leclerc, The Streets of the World 

I am a street and documentary photographer from Québec, Canada, living in Chicago.  I have always been fascinated by the “world” and curious about its diversity, challenges, and the resilience of human beings.  In this series, my goal is to capture beautiful moments showing how people live, eat, dress, interact, celebrate, pray, love… and the “streets” provide countless opportunities to find these moments.

-Jenna Mulhall-Brereton, Sacred/Sagrado: Festivals of Mexico

Since 2011, Jenna Mulhall-Brereton has traveled to various communities to witness and document traditions that are part of the fabric of Mexican culture. The term “sacred” invokes two distinct definitions: that which is holy and that which is a cherished part of the life of a community. Though all the festivals photographed tie back in some way to the religious calendar (Mardi Gras, after all, is the day before Lent), only about half of them celebrate the deeply held beliefs of the Catholic faith. Other images portray a profound sense of tradition, identity, and community that is every bit as intensely felt.

-May 31 to July 31, 2025

-Eyes on Wilson, the Indoor Residency Exhibition

The indoor residency exhibition will consist of roughly 400 photographs shot by 68 photographers from 18 different countries. This will be the ultimate residency exhibition as the whole 11th edition will be made of 500 photographs in total. This will be a time capsule made between 2027 and 2024 showing how Historic Downtown Wilson has evolved through the years and is now ready for a whole new chapter.

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