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 RSVP Link

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

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

Big and small. Close and far. Real and imagined. More / Less is a call for photographs that explore the push and pull between the monumental and the miniature. This theme was inspired by the 20/20 Photo Festival’s overarching focus on Structures—both literal and conceptual. In response, we invite work that reflects on the structure of scale, perspective, and power: how visual framing can elevate or diminish, clarify or distort.

Fractured Lands

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

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

Responding to the 20/20 Photo Festival theme "structures," The Halide Project is excited to share the work of Ella Morton and Dafna Talmor in our exhibition Fractured Lands. Both artists create new pieces of photographic art through a process of destruction. Using different processes - wet plate collodion and color film, respectively - they address themes such as climate change and the fraught history of landscape photography in their work while fearlessly dismantling physical and theoretical structures in order to build anew.

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 brings together two photo-based installations 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.

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