A reception Thursday kicks off an exhibit at the Johnson & Wales University Culinary Arts Museum theater featuring images of a previously undiscovered, edible, micro-universe. In ‘Lilliputian Landscapes’ photographer Judy Robinson-Cox reveals what’s really going on in your crisper when you’re not looking. The images in this show are photographs of tabletop dioramas constructed from […]
Rhode Island native Stephen Spencer had worked various commercial photography gigs — including staff photographer at the Mystic Aquarium — before switching gears and becoming manager of museum operations the J&W Culinary Arts Museum. Officially out of the photography business, Spencer began taking pictures for himself. “I like to shoot everyday stuff,” Spencer says. “I
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Urban wildlife photographer Peter Green (last featured here with his downtown snapping turtle) has some beautiful prints as well as his now famous poster of 111 Westminster Street (the Superman building) available for sale. This picture was selected by iolabs as its holiday paper cuts edition. Green’s work can be viewed here. He snapped one
Check out the new exhibit up now at the BankRI Galleries on Pitman Street — “Construction Zone: High Contrast Photographs by David DeMelim.” Although DeMelim originally attended the University of Rhode Island to study marine biology, he found himself taking art classes, primarily in photography and printmaking. “Pretty soon,” DeMelim says, “I had enough credits
AS220, RIPTA, and Nail Communications have come together to produce “MOVING” – a fully functioning RIPTA bus that will serve as a mobile art gallery. The bus is wrapped inside and out with black and white photographs, taken by students in the AS220 Youth program of Rhode Islanders who use Kennedy Plaza in a myriad
“Hey, I can see my house from here.” (7.24) Greater Kennedy Plaza presents a ‘Brown Bag Talk’ Tuesday in Burnside Park — “Providence Raptors: Falcons and Hawks of Burnside Park” — with wildlife photographer Peter Green (who else). Part of the ‘Kidoinfo Play in the Park Tuesdays’ series (which runs from 11am to 2pm) this
An upcoming exhibit in the Providence City Hall Gallery — “I-195: A Photographic Excavation” — presents the work of six local photographers who have documented the demolition and removal of Interstate Route 195, from the initial DOT Gold Wrecking Ball event at India Point in November of 2010 through the end of 2011. The exhibit
Well, you can’t get much more Providence than this — a Rhode Island Red hanging out in Antonelli’s Poultry on Federal Hill. Freelance photojournalist Ryan T. Conaty has been scoring some plum assignments lately, including these amazing photos for a piece written by Freda Moon, “36 Hours in Providence”, which ran in the July 11
Come join us as we use local history as creative inspiration. Through a series of four writing workshops, we will explore 19th century photographs, newspaper clippings, and other historic ephemera to reassemble and imagine a past that might otherwise be lost. Starting on April 7, themed workshops will be held every weekend at Providence Public
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That doesn’t usually need to be said, but at first glance the work of local photographer Rod O’Connor reads as painting. The image here is of ‘Providence Docks.’ O’Connor uses an unusual photographic system in his work – high dynamic range technique. The technique sandwiches several versions of the same shot, all taken with a
(Detail of poster seen here.) Photographer Peter Green first came to our attention for his amazing Providence Raptors series — images of the hawks, kestrels, and peregrine falcons that soar above our heads eying the delicious pigeons at our feet. His now famous photographs of the nesting peregrine falcons revealed a whole new world to
The 5TH BIENNIAL PHOTO LOTTERY is fast approaching. For the first time in it’s history the show is up in the gallery and on display for the entire month of September. We invite you all to mix and mingle with other photographers, learn more about the ever expanding world of AS220 Photo. We cordially invite
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Summer is drawing to a close, but you can still learn the best way to capture those last days of sunshine and the early days of fall by signing up for a photography class at AS220. Students — looking for a yearbook photo that doesn’t suck? Sign up for our Portrait Photography class and save
A profile in the Sunday New York Times of photographer Tod Seelie “A Chronicler of the Art-Vandal Underground” features his efforts trying to capture a Lightning Bolt show in Brooklyn. A few weeks ago, Mr. Seelie was standing where he often stands — at the lip of a stage in Williamsburg — for a tinnitus-inducing
June 7th at 7pm, AS220 Photo will host a free, public artist talk by the President of the American Society of Media Photographers’ New England Chapter, photographer Scott Indermaur. Scott will speak about the importance of maintaining personal artistic practice as a working professional. Many of us struggle to balance our personal creative practice with
Tomorrow, Tuesday May 31 at 6pm, the photo exhibit “El País Bajo Mi Piel: Culture, Memory and Resistance” opens at AS220 Photo at 93 Mathewson Street, Downtown. The photos are the final project of AS220 artist in residence for the month of May, Huáscar Robles, a journalist/photographer/activist from San Juan, Puerto Rico. The project is
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