Cristina Mittermeier & Paul Nicklen : Hope and Reverence

Online bidding opens: September 11, 2025 Online bidding closes: September 30, 2025 (starting alphabetically at 6am Pacific Time, so set your alarms if you want that Debbie Achen print!) Our gallery will be filled with a wide-ranging selection of small framed works of art generously donated by our talented community of photographers. We will have works by over 140 established and emerging artists, both legendary photographers and rising stars, from California and beyond! Once again, our 8×10 Fundraiser will be an online auction, though we will have some special raffle prizes and photographs available for visitors to the gallery. There will always be an Ansel Adams' print waiting for you in the raffle! We would especially like to thank all the talented artists who generously donate their photographs to our annual fundraiser each year. Their enthusiastic support creates important funding toward our many programs and helps make our nonprofit a vibrant community resource. And we need the arts more than ever now! A very special thank you to the incredible team at iGavel for sponsoring our auction again this year. Discover the full list of incredible photographers on the website! Image: © Monica Denevan

SUNY Polytechnic Institute’s Gannett Gallery proudly announces Deconstructed Self, a solo exhibition by acclaimed photographer Natalie Christensen (Santa Fe, New Mexico and Louisville, Kentucky). The show will run from August 20 through October 3, 2025, with an opening reception on Wednesday, September 3, 2025, featuring an artist talk at 2:00 PM, followed by a public reception from 4:00 to 6:00 PM. Christensen, whose work has been exhibited in prestigious venues internationally and featured in publications such as Vanity Fair, The Guardian, The Observer, The British Journal of Photography and Creative Boom, worked as a psychotherapist for over 25 years and was significantly influenced by the theories of psychologist Carl Jung. This unique perspective informs her approach to color, shadow, and space—elements that become symbolic language in her abstracted suburban imagery. Her photos often convey a somber interpretation, evoking repressed desires, unexplained tension and looming disaster. Known for her minimalist compositions and exploration of psychological landscapes, Christensen brings her distinctive vision to central New York with a series that interrogates the interplay between interior experience and the constructed environment. Deconstructed Self features evocative images that strip away context, encouraging viewers to confront themes of identity, memory, and perception. “Natalie Christensen’s work asks us to slow down and see the emotional resonance in ordinary spaces,” said a Gannett Gallery spokesperson. “Her photographs challenge the viewer to consider what lies beneath the surface of what we think we know—about place, and about ourselves.” Christensen’s work is inspired by commonplace architecture and streetscapes. “I don’t have to go anywhere special to make my photography; instead, I find my images around shopping centers, apartment complexes and office parks.” Choosing to shoot in locations that might be seen as uninteresting or even visually off-putting, she finds it challenging to “see” something hidden in plain sight. She notes, “It is our nature to ignore what is unpleasant, but sometimes I get a glimpse of the sublime in these ordinary places. When I find it, it feels like I have discovered gold.” Closed and open doors, empty parking lots, and forgotten swimming pools draw her to a scene; her reactions elicit interpretation. Christensen continues, “The symbols and spaces in my images are an invitation to explore a rich world that is concealed from consciousness. And the scenes are an enticement to contemplate narratives that have no remarkable life or history yet tap into something deeply familiar to our experience; often disturbing, sometimes amusing…unquestionably present.” The artist will present an in-depth talk about her process and the themes of Deconstructed Self at 2:00 PM on Wednesday, September 3, 2025, offering visitors a personal glimpse into the psychology and artistry behind the work.

Narratives in Focus is a photography exhibition featuring a diverse range of artists from the Caribbean, United States Latin America, and Africa. This presentation delves into nuanced expressions of individual and collective identities, prompting viewers to critically engage with themes of race, gender, and culture. The works exhibited emphasize the power of photography as a medium to investigate personal histories, cultural identities, and social dynamics. Through diverse visual languages, the artists highlight issues of memory, migration, and the interplay between tradition and modernity. Themes of survival, resistance, and empowerment are prevalent, reflecting the artists’ commitment to addressing and redefining notions of home, land, and community. By presenting a variety of perspectives and experiences, Narratives in Focus encourages viewers to reconsider their perceptions and biases. It not only underscores the importance of representation, but also invites contemplation on the intricate connections between the past and present, the personal and collective, and the local and global. Through powerful imagery and thought-provoking content, this exhibition challenges and deepens our understanding of identity in today’s world. Presented artists are Widline Cadet, Sarah Charlesworth, River Claure, Camila Falquez, Anna Bella Geiger, Njaimeh Njie, Athi-Patra Ruga, and Mary Sibande. Image: Camila Falquez. Samantha Siagama, Trans – Indigenous Leader , 2023 . Digital chromogenic print with red silk spacers . 43 x 33 x 2 inches . Collection Pérez Art Museum Miami, museum purchase with funds provided by The New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) Acquisition Gift to PAMM 2023 . © Camila Falquez

Curated by Kalup Linzy This powerful exhibition explores themes of migration, impermanence, and identity through photography and video. Featuring a diverse group of contemporary artists, the show invites viewers to reflect on the ways we experience place, community, and belonging in a world marked by movement and change. Through personal and collective narratives, the works engage with cultural intersections, shifting landscapes, and the complexity of selfhood. At its heart, the exhibition asks: How do we define home? Who gets to belong? And what stories are hidden—or revealed—through the lens? Curated by video and performance artist Kalup Linzy, this exhibition is presented in partnership with Queen Rose Art House and Tulsa Artist Fellowship. This timely and thought-provoking exhibition includes work by Jackson Adair, Adam G. Davis, Le’Andra LeSeur, Eyakem Guililat, VC Torneden, and Martha Rosler.

Nearly 60 years after The Beatles performed their final concert at Candlestick Park, Beatlemania is back in the Bay. Featuring more than 250 personal photographs by Paul McCartney, along with video clips and archival materials, this exhibition offers a behind-the-scenes look at the meteoric rise of the world’s most celebrated band. The images capture the period from December 1963 through February 1964 and the band’s journey to superstardom, from local venues in Liverpool to The Ed Sullivan Show and worldwide acclaim. Photographs of screaming crowds and paparazzi show the sheer magnitude of the group’s fame and the cultural change they represented. More intimate images of the band on their days off highlight the humor and individuality of McCartney and bandmates John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. Rediscovered in the artist’s personal archive in 2020, these images offer new perspectives on the band, their fans, and the early 1960s, as seen through the eyes of Paul McCartney. Paul McCartney Photographs 1963–1964: Eyes of the Storm is organized by the National Portrait Gallery, London, in collaboration with Paul McCartney. It is curated by Paul McCartney with Sarah Brown for MPL Communications and Rosie Broadley for the National Portrait Gallery, London. The presentation at the de Young museum is organized by Sally Martin Katz.

For 30 years Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery (PDNB Gallery) has operated in the city of Dallas in Uptown and in the Design District. It is exciting to announce that PDNB Gallery is officially open and ready for business in its new home in Denton, Texas! Gallery Co-Directors Burt and Missy Finger started as private art dealers in Denton and now they are proud to bring it all back home to the historic Downtown Square! This celebration exhibition will highlight the artists that have helped make PDNB a lasting success in Texas and beyond. The opening show will also be a nice introduction to the Denton community. Featured artists in GOING HOME include Texas artists: Peter Brown, Keith Carter, Earlie Hudnall, Jeanine Michna-Bales, Stuart Allen and Michael O’Brien. PDNB artists span the globe, and this exhibition will also include Esteban Pastorino Diaz (Argentina), Chema Madoz (Spain), Michael Kenna (USA), Cheryl Medow (USA), Patty Carroll (USA), Al Satterwhite (USA), Ruth Orkin (USA), Nickolas Muray (Hungarian born-USA), John Albok (Hungarian born-USA), Lucienne Bloch (Swiss born-USA). PDNB Gallery specializes in photography, but throughout its history they have also exhibited painting, sculpture, ceramics and works on paper. Artists represented by PDNB are established or emerging. Most have their work in major museum collections and have monographs published. It will be exciting to meet new friends in the art community of Denton, and old friends that come up to visit this bustling city with a remarkable downtown vibe. Image: Peter Brown, Dimmitt Meat Company, Dimmitt, TX, 1992

Front Row Center: Icons of Rock, Blues, and Soul charts photographer Larry Hulst’s extraordinary path through the pulsing heart of the most exciting live music of the twentieth century, showcasing a unique visual anthology of rock, blues, and soul music from 1970-1999. From Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix to David Bowie and Lauryn Hill, this exhibition brings together more than 70 images of legendary musicians across three genres and generations. Front Row Center grants viewers an all-access pass to some of the most memorable performances in popular music history. These images, which have been featured on album art and Rolling Stone spreads, convey Hulst’s lifelong passion for the magnetism, immediacy, and unpredictability of live music. With photos that also document the unforgettable voices of funk, punk, and beyond, Front Row Center grants viewers an all-access pass to some of the most memorable performances in popular music history. Image: Larry Hulst, Van Halen at Cow Palace, Daly City, CA, May 10, 1984. Photograph courtesy of the artist.

One of Hawaiʻi’s most respected photographers, Franco Salmoiraghi’s work is reflective of his affection for Hawaiʻi and of his powerful connection to the islands and its people. Born in Illinois, he moved to Honolulu in 1968 for a teaching position at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. His photographs that span the ensuing decades celebrate the importance of Hawaiʻi as a place of sublime beauty and cultural significance.  Franco Salmoiraghi: Photographs of Hawai‘i from the 70s, 80s, and 90s is drawn primarily from HoMA’s collection, and includes key loans highlighting various subjects the artist explored during a period of renewed interest in traditional Hawaiian practices, language, and devotion to the ‘āina (land). The exhibition features works in five subject areas—intimate portraits, awe-inspiring island landscapes, sensitive nude studies, detailed patterns in nature, and expressions of the energy and activism of the second Hawaiian Cultural Renaissance—which convey the artist’s sustained interest in documenting the rich diversity of Hawaiʻi’s people and places. 

Bridges span rivers, connect cities, and carry us over what once seemed impassable. Where once there was only a divide — a river too wide, a ravine too deep — now there is a line drawn through space. We drive over bridges, walk across them, sometimes without even thinking. Yet Michael Kenna impressively photographs these bridges stretching across the globe in a unique light of the feat of human construction through time.
 To open the fall 2025 season, Robert Mann Gallery is pleased to announce, The Bridges of Michael Kenna, on view from September 4 through October 18, 2025. Opening hours will take place on Thursday, September 4, from 6-8pm. An additional reception with the artist will be held on Friday, September 26, from 6-8pm. 

 Kenna’s first show with Robert Mann Gallery opened in 1997 around the time the movie, The Bridges of Madison County was released; a moving love story about a photographer on an assignment to shoot historic bridges. Kenna shares this fascination in capturing these structures, “Bridge structures are usually geometric and stationary with straight lines, verticals, horizontals and other angular constructs. The universe is constantly moving, flowing organic, uncontrollable and unpredictable. The abstract relationship between the two, almost like yin and yang, can be visually stunning and continues to fascinate and attract me.”
 The bridges in this exhibition cross over bodies of water, from Sydney Harbour Bridge, Study 1, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, to Brooklyn Bridge, Study 1, New York City, USA carrying multiple lanes of traffic, trains, and possibilities. While other small bridges such as Canal Bridge, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England and Ponte dei Sospiri, Venice, Italy stretch a short distance suitable only for individuals to journey across. Each bridge featured in the exhibition has its own historical significance and the possibility of one day being replaced. Kenna beautifully captures the bridge’s story, often at dawn or dusk, along with often solidifying its place in the world. 
 What was once the end of the road becomes a place of crossing. What was once isolation becomes relationship. The landscape is no longer defined by separation, but by the possibility of reaching across. In The Bridges of Michael Kenna, the artist’s careful treatment of each composition is apparent from frame to frame, in which every detail is given its due consideration to express this relationship between the bridge and the land. The images in the exhibition represent over 50 years of Kenna’s exploration of this subject matter. With dozens of monographs and hundreds of solo exhibitions held around the world, Kenna is one of the most widely exhibited and beloved photographers working today. His work has been shown at the Tacoma Art Museum, the Palazzo Magnani Museum in Reggio Emilia, Italy, and Bibliothèque Nationale de France, to name a few. Kenna's photographs are included in many distinguished public collections including the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Modern Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Shanghai Art Museum; the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea; the Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague; Museum of Art and Photography, Bangalore, India; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

 The Bridges of Michael Kenna will be on view in conjunction with the artist’s exhibition, Japan: A Love Story, at the International Center of Photography from August 27 - September 28, 2025. Image: Brooklyn Bridge, Study 1, New York City, USA, 2006 © Michael Kenna

ROSEGALLERY is pleased to present BOUND AND UNBOUND: The Photographic Book and the Print. While photographic prints often stand at the forefront as iconic images in their own right, the photobook reveals the broader scope of a series, situating singular photographs within a larger narrative. The exhibition highlights two distinct ways of experiencing photographs: the book through the intimate act of turning pages, and the print through its scale and material presence. This interplay underscores the artistry of sequence, design, and craft while reaffirming the enduring significance of the photographic print. Together, singular prints and photobooks work in tandem, each holding their own weight and offering distinct yet complementary ways of experiencing photography. By staging the books and prints together, BOUND AND UNBOUD examines the unique proposition that the book itself is not simply a vessel, but an additional artistic form that is dialogue with the photographic print. This exhibition becomes both a library and a gallery, a meditation on the multiple lives of photographs, and a testament to the enduring role of publishing in shaping the field of contemporary photography. The Six by Six series, published by Nazraeli Press, occupies a rare and important place in the history of photographic publishing. Conceived as a set of finely crafted, limited-edition books paired with original prints, Six by Six is at once a publishing project, a collector’s art object, and a collective portrait of contemporary photography. With prints showcased on the walls, they expand outward, breaking free from the bound format; images are seen in a new scale, where gesture, surface, and detail can be apprehended differently. This doubling, the page and the wall, reveals photography’s ability to inhabit multiple registers. Among many artists featured in the exhibition are works by Thomas Demand, Marilyn Minter, Catherine Opie, Carrie Mae Weems, and Alec Soth, whose work moves fluidly between the printed page and the collectible print, this shift of context underscores how each format amplifies distinct qualities of the image. In the book, photographs converse in sequence, forming narratives or visual poems. On the wall, they assert themselves as singular presences, suspended in space. BOUND AND UNBOUND: The Photographic Book and the Print also features books from Luhz Press, Editorial RM, Schirmer/Mosel, and more, continuing the dialogue between the photobook as something democratic and portable, and the print as a singular, collectible entity.

In Common Practice celebrates the work of participants from two vibrant CPW artistic communities: Lesly Deschler Canossi’s Monthly Crit Group and the Project Salon led by Charles Purvis. Both programs, which began in 2024 and have each hosted three artist cohorts to date, embody the artists’ ongoing commitment to developing their work and craft in collaboration with fellow creators through conversation and inquiry. These initiatives foster connections that extend beyond CPW, creating lasting networks of mutual support and artistic exchange within the broader creative community. The exhibition offers a variety of styles, techniques, and perspectives, highlighting individual expression and creativity while celebrating the collective journey of artistic development. Each work reflects not only personal vision but also the enriching influence of peer engagement and supportive critique that ripples outward, strengthening the wider artistic ecosystem. Participating artists: Jessica Bard Joseph Callender Jessica Chappe Allison DeBritz Cicero deGuzman Jr. Daniel Georges Jackson Porter Hardin Tara Holmes Dallas Houston Inna Ivanovskaya Simon Keough Alon Koppel Flynn Larsen Nancy Macnamara Kathy McFarland Jeff Mertz Matt Moment Harry Murzyn Will Nixon Tom Picasso Carla Rhodes Adina Scherer Alicia Schirrmeister Valerie Shaff Kelly Sinclair Pamela Takif Rich Tomasulo Anastassia Tretiakova Erika Norton Urie This presentation includes new photographs originally commissioned by Aperture and Documentary Arts.

The camera and the car revolutionized modern life in America and have been intertwined since the very beginning. This photography exhibition displays work by artists shaped mainly by car travel in the 20th century, exploring how the automobile and the road mediated what the photographers discovered. Themes include Depression-era documentary work, roadside culture, utopian impulses of escape, and fascination with the desert Southwest. Significant figures include Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Edward Weston, Robert Frank, and Lee Friedlander. Vernacular photographs as well as books will also be on view. The exhibition will include a significant display of work by Emil Otto Hoppé, whose 1926 travels generated the first comprehensive survey of the American landscape. In Search of America: Photography and the Road Trip is curated by Eric Lutz, associate curator of prints, drawings, and photographs.