Echoes and Remnants by Krista Svalbonas

Responding to the theme of this year’s festival ‘Structures,’ artist Krista Svalbonas presented three interwoven series in a solo show titled “Echoes and Remnants”. The series explored 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. 

More/Less curated by Float Magazine

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

More / Less was an exploration of scale-not just as a visual device, but as a way of seeing and feeling the world. The photographs probed the boundaries between the colossal and the minute, the intimate and the overwhelming.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

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.

Still By Jacob Lechner

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

"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

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

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

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

Twenty years ago, New Orleans underestimated the impact that Hurricane Katrina would have. 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 which was curated by accomplished artist/photographer and cultural activist Lonnie Graham recounted, photographically and poetically, the experiences of those who endured Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.

Looping: Ground

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

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

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

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

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

In partnership with @thecoloredgirlsmuseum Ubuntu Fine Art was honored to host guest artist Andrea Walls, 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

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? This show welcomed emerging artists across institutions to reflect on the relationship between their images and self-understanding.