Wanderlife Gallery

09/01/22 - 09/31/22

Theme: Community featuring work by Allis Chang, Ibrahim Cisse, Michael Donovan, Ursula Johnson, Jessica Margo, Paolo Morales, James Singewald, Dafna Steinberg and John Waller

Halide Project

09/02/22 - 10/23/22

Sebastien and Louise have been travelling and exploring the Inland Waterways of the UK on their narrowboat for almost a decade. Captured exclusively on film, their work is an intimate portrait, through the seasons, of the community at the Western end of the Kennet and Avon Canal.

Gravy Studio and Cherry Street Pier

09/01/22 - 10/02/22

Now, more than ever, it’s clear that mutual aid and coming together to support one another is crucial. The work of these three Philadelphia-based BIPOC photographers captures portraits and street photography of the vibrant communities that make our city special. All proceeds from the exhibitions will benefit Homies Helping Homies, a mutual aid effort in Southwest Philadelphia.

Cherry Street Pier

09/24/2022 - 10/21/2022

James Abbott and Blaise Tobia both photograph extensively in Italy, concentrating on aspects of Italian material culture. In this exhibition they examine the phenomenon of elaborate construction scrims as well as other types of "overlays" at architectural scale.

Main Line Art Center

09/06/2022 - 10/28/ 2022

Risky Beauty: Aesthetics and Climate Change will showcase artwork in different media that draws in viewers with its sensual beauty, while stimulating awareness and changing perceptions. The exhibition will challenge viewers to consider how their aesthetic experience of nature might change in light of the scientific consensus about the validity of the climate crisis, the known societal forces that hasten environmental degradation, and the impact of climate change in their personal environments. The exhibit will highlight mid or late career environmentally-conscious Philadelphia area artists, whose work has impacted both the local community and international audiences. .

Photo West Gallery

09/16/2022 - 09/30/2022

Exploring the world around them, these photographers communicate new and undiscovered perspectives on foreign territory both near and far - paths ahead revealed. Through their contemporary lenses, our diverse planet is revered and celebrated in documentary, abstract, and conceptual photography. This public art exhibition is presented at Wiota Street Garden, an urban farm and vegetable market in West Philadelphia, to share a multiplicity of perspectives through photography and connect with the vibrant local community.

TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image

09/08/2022 - 12/10/2022

An exploration of health/care, collective grief, disability, illness, and healing through image-making. Examining health and disability as intersectional experiences, and the ways in which ableism and access to healthcare are directly intertwined with systems such as racism, sexism, and homophobia, selected artists will expand preconceived notions of these topics using principles rooted in Disability Justice, a framework coined by Black, Brown, Queer, and Trans activists, including Patty Berne, Mia Mingus, and Stacey Milbern. The artwork facilitates a nuanced understanding of how these systems impact people at different levels and how art can serve as a mechanism to challenge that reality.

InLiquid

09/23/2022 - 10/22/2022

Crispness is in the air. A modest destabilization. Your jacket crossed tight to guard against a chilly wind. A confusion. Ennui. Loneliness. Autumn, though full of decay, has a marked beauty, like a poem written in longing. Like the season of fall itself, the four artists of The Beauty of Stillness conjure tender reflective moments that are marked by pangs of uncertainty, yearning, and beauty.

The Print Center

09/16/2022 - 11/12/2022

Ukrainian Photography Today, sheds light on the enduring creativity and resilience of Ukrainian artists in times of war. Mounted in solidarity with the Ukrainian people, the exhibition presents impactful works shaped by a feminist lens. The photographs are centered around themes of identity, motherhood and family connection, situated at the crossroads of joy and grief, permanence and loss.

Ubuntu Fine Art

Open thru 12/31/22

The Ubuntu Fine Art Gallery, located in the Historic Germantown section of Philadelphia, aims to bring people together and allow the community to travel the world through fine art. ​​Owned and curated by Steven CW Taylor, the gallery is the first black owned photography gallery in the USA, which showcases large-format color photographs made during Taylor’s travels to spectacular places in Africa, the American West and more.

Jed Williams Studio

09/24/2022 - 09/25/2022

The exhibition will include various types of photography by éminent Philadelphia photographer Alan Simpson along with visionary and abstract paintings by Jed Williams. The exhibit attemps to create and explore a feeling of community between photographers and other mixed media artists.

The SPACE Art Gallery

08/01/22 - 09/30/22 and 09/30/22 - 10/02/22

The SPACE Art Gallery welcomes Richard Freeman and his inexhaustible urge to suspend in time the transitory energy, beauty, and mystery of a firework. At the end of the month, the gallery will also host a pop up exhibit of Guru Shots members. Each month thousands of Guru Shots members are exhibited in galleries and exhibition spaces around the world.

Unique Photo in partnership with Curator Susanna Gold

09/02/2022 -

"Shine," an exhibition of over 20 photographs, is the latest series by Ron Tarver, who explores his own racial identities and experiences as a Black artist. His collection of new photos exposes the problematic nature of black memorabilia, a decorative art. While these objects are still collected, some with high values, they represent a legacy of racism and belittlement of a people simply due to skin color.

The Halide Project

09/03/2022 - 10/16/2022

Lux et Libera is a new initiative that seeks to recognize the leading role women play in the fields of film and alternative/historic process photography and to create new opportunities for them. This exhibition will feature the work of female photographers and photo educators based in the Philadelphia area who work in these processes, including Laurie Beck Peterson, Sandra C. Davis, Andrea Modica, Jackie Neale, Heather Palecek, Dale Rio, and Amanda Tinker.

Cerulean Gallery

09/14/2022 - 10/09/2022

Analog silver prints along with Encaustic Photographs. Photography by Leah Macdonald.

Saint Joseph’s University

08/22/22 - 10/22/22

This two-person exhibition features the work of Maurene Cooper and Eric Kunsman both living and working in neighborhoods in Philadelphia, PA and Rochester, NY, respectively, that are depicted as dangerous. Cooper and Kunsman shed light on the positive aspects of their communities challenging the stereotypes and highlighting the beauty of humanity.

PL130 Gallery at PhotoLounge

07/11/22 - 09/26/22

Off Topic is a photo show about the unassigned work of photojournalists who worked for thePhiladelphia Inquirer and Daily News since the 80s. Rather than showing pictures “on assignment,” it explores their more creative and introspective images. Images that are “Off Topic.” The show includes work by over 40 distinguished and award winning photojournalists and is a fascinating unpublished narrative in pictures of the past several decades.

The University of The Arts Photo Department 15th Floor Gallery

09/08/2022 - 10/08/2022

German Vazquez’s work is about the stories of the Queer (Cuir) community who are often targeted and hunted in colonized lands. The work is a documentation of real life human beings who are in danger because they live in places where they are not welcome, loved or protected! Because nature is a safe place–away from the hatred and the constant religious oppression the artist photographs in the wilderness. In this he creates a safe space where his subjects can feel free, confident , sexual, and can express their gender identity.

Rowan University Art Gallery

09/01/2022 - 10/29/2022

To Whom It May Concern will feature Genevieve Gaignard’s self-portraiture, collages and installation that confronts nostalgic views of American culture. Through her exploration of race, femininity and class, Gaignard interrogates notions of skin privilege while challenging viewers to look more closely at racial realities.

Elfreth's Alley Museum

05/06/2022 - 10/30/2022

In this exhibit's experimental experience by Dilmar M. Gamero Santos, the archival records of Elfreth's Alley life have been deconstructed to expose the understanding and perception of personal narratives that offer alternative views of collective memory and public history.

The experimental processes in the creation of these objects based on analog experimental photographic processes and algorithmic new media creations with partial unpredictable results have been used to analyze and question ideas of presence and absence of ethnic groups, the exercise of power and control, patterns of privilege assigned to race, gender and ethnicity, as well as concerns of domestic and child labor, environment, gentrification, and social networks, offering a rich description of the Alley.

Old City Jewish Arts Center

09/11/2022 - 09/30/2022

Honoring the Life of Award-Winning Philadelphia Photographer, Lynne Goldstein, OBM

Philiput

09/24/2022 - 10/18/2022

Visual essay that incorporates constructed photography, collage and mixed media as an artistic support to reflect on the last existential and biographical moments of ten Latin American poets and writers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Noted by their extraordinary literary production, intense life and a tragic outcome, whose ends generated great social commotion that transcended the private sphere, becoming part of the collective imagination.