Members: Stronger Together
2020: Remote Through a Pandemic
The Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts presents this special 2021 Member exhibition to celebrate two online member projects running remotely through 2020.
This exhibition brings together a selection of Member work collected from a pair of year long projects running at the Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts. As we sheltered in-place during the COVID-19 pandemic we took our monthly Print Share & Peer Review sessions online through the use of cluster.co and launched re/vision (a weekly Crit Group) with the use of the now ubiquitous Zoom video conferencing service. With isolation stretching out along an indeterminate path in front of us, these are two of the ways we found to stay connected and find our way forward. Without the ability to travel, to gather, and as in person events ceased these ongoing projects provided a way to engage and keep our photographic practices active. Some members were able to continue on much as before, some explored alternate subject matter while others used the time to revisit older work from a new perspective. Some explored all of these, and… happily some were able to develop new techniques, new ways of seeing, and new subject matter to explore. Some of us just got through it fueled by the shared energy and are happy that together we all made it through to 2021.
– David DeMelim, Managing Director
Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts
Members: Stronger Together
Presents work created by the supporting members of re/vision, introduces 2020 in a Box, a limited edition portfolio of prints and a book made from work shared by participants of our Print Share & Peer Review project.
re/vision includes: Angela C. Brown, Jody Brown, Bill Clark, David DeMelim, Deb Ehrens, Eileen McCarney Muldoon, David S. Pinkham, Keith Prue, Steve Szydlowski & Cindy Horovitz Wilson.
Print Share & Peer Review participating members are: Denise Bass, Sharon Bibeault, Bill Clark, David DeMelim, A. Cemal Ekin, John Femino, David Fleurant, Donald Johnson, George Lowell and Steve Szydlowski.
Schedule*
Gallery Exhibition: April 15th – May 14th
Gallery Hours: Thursdays & Fridays & Saturdays 1:00 – 6:00pm.
Gallery Visits: By Chance or Appointment, email gallery@riphotocenter.org
Reception*: April 15th, 2020 2:00 – 8:00 p.m.
*subject to current capacity restrictions, masks required
Introducing: re/vision
re/vision is a group of supporting members committed in their practice to Review, Inspire, Contemplate, Promote and Advance their own photographic practice and that of others. We gather to re/view, re/vise, re/think, re/focus, re/frame, re/store, re/new and re/imagine our world. This gallery exhibition presents work shared, developed or informed by this yearlong collaboration and introduces our first portfolio project, 2020 in a Box.
About re/vision:
In April 2020 we started a Crit Group with the use of the Zoom video conferencing service. The group, composed of Supporting Members, started with no formal agenda, no commitment was expected, no minutes were kept and yet we still gather every week to share work, offer feedback and connect. The initial goal was to provide a way to stay connected and an incentive to stay active photographically. Together we helped to discover new subject matter or new ways of thinking as the size of our worlds shrank overnight. Participants were encouraged to bring a selection of their own work to share and be prepared to offer feedback on work presented. We shared and commented on each other’s work, offering encouragement on work in progress and suggestions for next steps. Shared resources, book suggestions, a few YouTube videos and watch parties for short documentaries on lesser known photographers became valued supplements. These sessions provided a point of connection, needed feedback on work in progress or just a way to connect.
This gallery exhibition presents a selection of work shared, developed or otherwise connected to this journey we took together, some represent new directions, explorations or working methods developed during this shared journey while others present new work from established bodies of work.
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