Sites of Memory at the Colorado Photographic Arts Center brings together the work of Harlan Bozeman, Justin A. Carney, Taylor E Edgerton, and Letitia Huckaby in an exhibition shaped by the 2026 One Book One Denver selection. On view from August 7 to September 19, 2026, the show uses photography to examine how trauma, history, and resilience settle into places and move across generations.
The premise is grounded in a familiar truth: stories do more than describe experience, they organize it. In this exhibition, that idea takes visual form through images that consider belonging, inheritance, struggle, and endurance. Each artist approaches those themes differently, but the connection lies in their attention to what remains after an event, a memory, or a loss has passed through a community.
Bozeman, Carney, Edgerton, and Huckaby work in distinct registers, yet the exhibition draws them into a shared conversation about the emotional weight of place. Their photographs suggest that landscapes, interiors, and figures can hold history just as firmly as archives or monuments. The result is a show that treats memory not as something fixed, but as something carried, revised, and sometimes contested.
The timing of the exhibition gives it added resonance. Denver Public Library’s 2026 One Book One Denver selection is announced on August 7, and Samantha Johnston’s curatorial statement follows, framing the exhibition more explicitly in relation to the book’s themes. Even without that full context, Sites of Memory already reads as a thoughtful response to the citywide project: an invitation to look at how literature and photography can meet in the space between personal reflection and public conversation.
At CPAC, the exhibition avoids easy conclusions. It does not reduce resilience to a slogan or history to a backdrop. Instead, it offers a measured, attentive view of how communities remember, and how artists make that remembrance visible.
Image: Detail of Book Under The Pew ©Taylor E Edgerton



