Echoes and Remnants by Krista Svalbonas

Bottling House Gallery at KieranTimberlake
841 North American Street, Philadelphia, PA 19123

September 2nd - October 2nd

Opening Reception: September 4 5-8pm.

Exhibition is viewable by appointment only. Appointments can be scheduled during the week: Monday through Friday, 9am-5pm. Please Email Huwayda Fakhry hfakhry@kierantimberlake.com and TJ Hunt thunt@kierantimberlake.com for appointments.

The 20/20 Photo Festival is proud to present our 2025 featured exhibit with Philadelphia artist Krista Svalbonas.  Responding to the theme of this year’s festival ‘Structures,’ she will be presenting three interwoven series in a solo show titled “Echoes and Remnants” at the Bottling House Gallery at KieranTimberlake.  The series explores Baltic resistance, displacement, and cultural survival. Rooted in personal history and ancestral memory, this work reflects on the impact of Soviet occupation across generations, landscapes, and architectures.  Together, these series ask how landscapes, buildings, and material traditions carry memory, identity, and resistance. They honor those who fought, fled, and endured—and invite viewers to consider what survives in the aftermath of struggle.

More/Less curated by Float Magazine

Cherry Street Pier
121 N. Columbus Boulevard Philadelphia, PA 19106

September 5 - September 28th

Opening Reception: September 6th, 12-5pm. Artist Happy Hour at 4pm.

A collaboration with Float Magazine and supported in part by Mixam and Lexjet

More / Less is an exploration of scale-not just as a visual device, but as a way of seeing and feeling the world. These photographs probe the boundaries between the colossal and the minute, the intimate and the overwhelming. They ask: what happens when we shift our perspective? A towering structure may crumble under emotional weight; a pocket-sized memory may expand until it fills the frame. Here, scale becomes a tool of transformation—a means to reshape hierarchies, retrame the familiar, and reassign emotional weight to what we often overlook.

Fractured Lands

The Halide Project
1627 N 2nd St, Philadelphia, PA 19122

September 5 - October 19
Opening Reception: Friday, September 5, 5pm

Curated by Dale Rio, Fractured Lands examines how photographic destruction becomes a generative act. Both artists begin with analog images of landscapes and then physically intervene in their materials to reconstruct new images that challenge traditional notions of landscape photography. Morton uses the Japanese technique of kintsugi to piece together broken images of Arctic environments, drawing attention to the critical state of the natural world. Talmor slices and reassembles her “failed” negatives into complex composite images, transforming discarded material into a master negative and interrogating the assumptions and colonial histories embedded in landscape photography.

Special programming includes Light Talks with each artist: Talmor will speak on Monday, September 22 at 5:00 pm, followed by Morton on Monday, October 20 at 7:00 pm.

Still By Jacob Lechner

Unique Photo Philadelphia

28 S 2nd St, 4th floor Philadelphia, PA 19106. 

8/20/25 - 9/30/25

Opening Reception: Friday September 5, 2025. 5-7pm.

Still is a series of photo-based works that use experimental transfer techniques on found wooden objects. By merging image with weathered material, the work explores themes of memory, impermanence, and transformation. The imperfections in the process—fading, peeling, and distortion—mirror the fragility of recollection and the quiet beauty of decay.

Nazanin Noroozi: False Dawn

Group Exhibition: Memory Loss

The Print Center

1614 Latimer St, Philadelphia, PA 19103

September 12 - November 22

Opening Reception and Gallery Talk: September 11, 5:30pm

"Nazanin Noroozi: False Dawn" juxtaposes media images of the ongoing refugee crisis along the southern European coastline with amateur pictures of American landscapes. Together, they merge personal and collective memories related to the migrant experience.

"Memory, Loss" is a group exhibition of artists exploring the unknowable, psychological experience through photography, printmaking and video, striving to create visual proximity to their loved ones.

Shikeith: People Who Die Bad Don’t Stay in the Ground

TILT

400 N American St UNIT 103, Philadelphia, PA 19122

September 11 - November 22

Opening Reception: September 11, 6pm

Inspired by a resonant line from Toni Morrison’s seminal novel Beloved, “People Who Die Bad Don’t Stay in the Ground,“ delves deeply into visual artist Shikeith's ongoing investigation of the hauntological encounters and lived realities of Black men and boys. Through a rich and varied multidisciplinary practice encompassing photography, film, sculpture, and installation, the exhibition chronicles the enduring legacy of historical traumas and their persistent reverberations across successive generations, actively resisting attempts at erasure and historical amnesia.

Architecture in Abstraction

Box Spring Gallery

1400 N. American St. Phila, PA 19122

September 11 – October 4
Opening Reception: September 11, 6-9pm

The mission of Box Spring Gallery is to show where art and design meet. And our juried photography exhibition, Architecture in Abstraction, is no exception. An open call to photographers in the greater Philadelphia region, the subject is accessible, the objective is creative, and the result is a collection of graphic shapes, patterns, illusions, and interesting ambiguity. These works provide something extraordinary in the ordinary.

Gunpowder Communique

Chimaera Gallery
3502 Scotts Lane #2113, Philadelphia PA 19129

September 6 - September 27

Opening Reception: September 6

Scott McMahon & Ahmed Salvador have been collaborating for decades. Their egos are tempered by this dual authorship. Since graduation, Scott and Ahmed have lived far apart, so this mostly happens through the mail.

One of them sends the other a piece of film or light sensitive paper packaged in a parcel designed to slowly allow light to leak through small holes: exposing the material in random ways. The film might already have lens exposures, so the light leaks interrupt recognizable images. 

Revelations: An Evolution of Introspection: Photographs by Donald E. Camp and Clarence Williams • Poetry by Ursula Rucker

InLiquid Gallery
1400 N. American St. Phila, PA 19122

August 8 – September 27

Reception: August 14 6-9pm RSVP Link

Portrait Photography workshop with Donald E. Camp: August 27, 5:30– 7:00pm @Maja Park, N 22nd St &, Benjamin Franklin Pkwy RSVP link to come

Artist Talk with Curator Lonnie Graham and Photographer Donald E. Camp: September 7th, 11a – 12pm @ Unique Photo, 28 S 2nd St, Philadelphia, PA RSVP link to come

Poetry reading with Ursula Rucker preceded by artist remarks from Donald E. Camp and Clarence Williams: September 11th, 4:15p – 5:45pm @ InLiquid Gallery, 1400 N American St, Philadelphia PA RSVP link

Twenty years ago, New Orleans underestimated the impact that Hurricane Katrina would have. Once Katrina hit land, aging infrastructure failed, and an entire city was thrown into an unimaginable hellscape of flooding waters and crumbling humanity. The United States Government proved institutional neglect and systemic inequalities were, and are still, very much a part of the American way of life – especially for people of color. Donald E. Camp and Clarence Williams, two acclaimed Black photojournalists with Philly roots, who experienced the devastation first-hand, alongside poet and spoken word artist, Ursula Rucker, reflect on that history in Revelations: An Evolution of Introspection. The exhibition curated by accomplished artist/photographer and cultural activist Lonnie Graham recounts, photographically and poetically, the experiences of those who endured Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.

Looping: Ground

Frances M. Maguire Art Museum at Saint Joseph’s University
50 Lapsley Lane Merion Station, PA 19066

August 30 - December 14

Opening Reception: September 7, 2 - 4 pm; Remarks by the artists at 3pm

Looping: Ground features two photo-based installations by artists Maria Dumlao and Julianna Foster that investigate our evolving relationship with the environment through the framework of structure. Drawing imagery from the Barnes Arboretum at Saint Joseph’s University, the artists explore the quiet rhythms, repetitions, and subtle transformations inherent in natural systems. Each installation utilizes photography to explore how these organic processes intersect with, inform, or resist the built environments that surround us. As photographers, the artists engage their medium as a tool for examining and challenging both visible and invisible structures that shape our perception of the world. Through layered imagery and spatial interventions, Looping: Ground invites viewers to consider the deep interdependence between human and ecological systems—and to imagine more adaptive, responsive ways of being, grounded in the intelligence of nature.

Alexander Artway: Light and Legacy

Old City Jewish Arts Center

119 N. 3rd St. Philadelphia, PA 19106

September 2-28th, 2025

Opening Reception + Shabbat Dinner, First Friday, Sept. 5 | 5–9 PM (Dinner at 9 PM)

Talk & Meet and Greet with Jeanette Artway Jimenez, Sunday, Sept. 14 | 2–4 PM

Closing Reception, Sunday, Sept. 28 | 2–4 PM

The Old City Jewish Art Center proudly presents Alexander Artway's Photography: Light & Legacy, on view September 2–28, 2025. Curated by Amie Potsic, CEO & Principal Curator of Amie Potsic Art Advisory, the exhibition is a featured program of the 20/20 Photo Festival in Philadelphia and unveils the extraordinary archive of photographer Alexander Artway alongside contemporary works by photographer Katie Butterfield Tackman. Together, their images illuminate the enduring power of photography to preserve memory, document history, and reveal the poetry of light.

Maneto

True Hand Society

2345 E. Susquehanna Ave. Philadelphia, PA 19125

September 20 - October 31

Opening Reception: Saturday, September 20th, 6-9pm

Featuring Work by Andrew Abraham, Andrew Mitgang, Dan Eshleman, Eli Arce, Eric DeJesus, Fernanda Gandara, Humberto Morales, Ian Maley, Jim O’Malley, Mekhi Greene, Nazir Wayman, Odochi Akwani, Oluwagbenga Okiemute, Roshan Basil, Sammy Rivera, Thomas Hengge, Tomas Provencher

Receipts: We Have Them

Painted Bride
4209 Cambridge Street, Philadelphia, PA

September 20 - October 31

Closing Reception: Saturday, October 25, 2025 | 1:00–4:00 PM

A group photography exhibition and visual archive offering a powerful meditation on the creative labor, joy, and resistance that shape Black cultural life in Philadelphia, Receipts: We Have Them features work by Ursula Johnson, Ken McFarlane, Terrell Halsey, Tash Billington, Jorden Di’lean, and Koren Martin. Curated by Andrea Walls of the Museum of Black Joy, the show explores themes of Black joy and resistance through curated compilations of lived textures, creative artifacts, and personal testimonies. Framing the generational wisdom of Black Philadelphia, the exhibition reveals culture not as ornament, but as architecture, foundational, instructive, and enduring.

Enough Already: Photography and Excess

Philadelphia Museum of Art
2600 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy, Philadelphia, PA 19130

August 18 - November 30

This exhibition will examine photography’s capacity for abundance, detail, and over-sharing in works from the 1960s to today. Featured artists, including Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, Peter Hutchinson, Wang Qingsong, David Wojnarowicz, Arthur Ou, and Tim Portlock, among others, have pursued subjects and imagery that take things too far, from filling the frame with innumerable contents to recording overtly personal, disagreeable, or abject scenarios to exploring the limits of optical technology. The resulting works might be too big, too detailed, too saturated, too provocative, or too confrontational, prompting us to reflect on human behavior and desires.

 The exhibition includes two commissioned installations by artists Emma Ressel and Rachel Stern, who each reflect on desire and excess. Ressel explores the often destructive human impulse to be close to nature, while Stern considers intertwining objects of desire: beautiful bodies and beautiful things.

Indigo Road: Be/Holding Southern Landscapes: A One Woman Show Photos & more by Andrea Walls

Ubuntu Fine Art Gallery
5423 Germantown Ave,, Philadelphia, PA 19144

Opening Reception: Friday, September 5, 2025 6:00–9:00 PM

In partnership with @thecoloredgirlsmuseum Ubuntu Fine Art is honored to host guest artist Andrea Walls this September with her exhibition, Indigo Road: Be/Holding Southern Landscapes.

The story of a Black woman from Philadelphia traveling alone through the American South. Over 10,000 miles of discovery on an intentional journey to photograph the 5 crops and landscapes that enriched America, while stealing the lives and labor of Black Americans: Cotton, Rice, Sugar Cane, Tobacco and Indigo.

The Camera Has Its Shyness

PL130 Gallery
130 South 17th St, Philadelphia

Reception: September 19, 2025 7-9 PM

The Camera Has Its Shyness celebrates how cameras bring to light truths about their subjects, while subjects often reveal truths about their photographers.

Photography brings clarity, but it can also resist exposure. This dual nature of the medium invites questions such as: What is the focus? What is consistently returned to? What is left unsaid? 

The show welcomes emerging artists across institutions to reflect on the relationship between their images and self-understanding. Students are invited to reflect on their body of work and notice the personal styles that emerge.

Now in its fourth year, this annual student show at PhotoLounge celebrates the work of young artists in honor of our founder’s friend and mentor, Jerry Brown, who was a giant in the photo lab industry. This show includes three substantial awards in his memory, totaling $1200 in PhotoLounge gift cards for lab services. Each winner will also receive a free StudentFilm Photography Club Membership.