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The fair will include: •  The work of regional photographic artists •  Booths by art organizations / photography suppliers / educational institutions. Including Horse & Buggy Press and Friends, The Light Factory, Through This Lens Gallery. •  Demonstrations of photography techniques/new products/printing processes/etc. •  Sun Printing (cyanotypes) workshop for kids of all ages. Led by instructors from The Light Factory.

Image by Tamika Galanis Tamika Galanis is a documentarian and multimedia visual artist. A Bahamian native, Tamika’s work examines the complexities of living in a place shrouded in tourism’s ideal during the age of climate concerns. Emphasizing the importance of Bahamian cultural identity for cultural preservation, Tamika documents aspects of Bahamian life not curated for tourist consumption to intervene in the historical archive. This work counters the widely held paradisiacal view of the Caribbean, the origins of which arose post-emancipation…

Guest curator, photographer, 21 year Army veteran, and UNC-Chapel Hill American Studies PhD candidate, John Bechtold will talk about war in public memory and some of the curatorial choices which informed this visual project. From Fallujah is a group photography exhibit featuring the work of four emerging Iraqi photographers. The exhibit proceeds from the idea that the best way to learn about a place is through the people who live there. Our purpose is to simply make another story about…

(Ages 14 and up) Instructor: Roylee Duvall Our Introductory “Level 1” Photoshop workshop is ideal for both those new to Photoshop and more experienced users who want to dramatically improve their Photoshop skills and abilities in a two-day workshop format. Students must have a basic knowledge of PC Windows or Mac. Students should bring their own personal laptop with Adobe Photoshop already installed. Special Notes Masks required. Register: https://reg130.imperisoft.com/DurhamArts/ProgramDetail/3837343535/Registration.aspx  

(Ages 14 and up) Instructor: Roylee Duvall Our Introductory “Level 1” Photoshop workshop is ideal for both those new to Photoshop and more experienced users who want to dramatically improve their Photoshop skills and abilities in a two-day workshop format. Students must have a basic knowledge of PC Windows or Mac. Students should bring their own personal laptop with Adobe Photoshop already installed. Special Notes Masks required. Register: https://reg130.imperisoft.com/DurhamArts/ProgramDetail/3837343535/Registration.aspx  

by Margaret Sartor Sartor will talk about and read from her series, The Problem of Human Behavior, part of larger series she calls TORN, a personal and an ongoing exploration into storytelling using the combined languages of words and images. Pictures and stories have long served the function of preserving memory, of making transitory experience into something that can be handed down or carried with us; they provide a shield against time, a salve for loss. Everyday experience is, for…

Meet artist Renee Cox, born in Colgate, Jamaica. Cox is a photographer, lecturer, political activist and curator whose feminist work forthrightly critiques structures of power. She uses her own body, both nude and clothed, to celebrate Black womanhood and criticize a society she often views as racist and sexist. Her work, The Housewife Missy at Home from the series Black Housewives, is on view in In Relation to Power: Politically Engaged Works from the Collection Learn More This will be…

In this exhibit, The Pretend Villages documents the inhabitants and structures of imagined, fabricated Iraqi and Afghan villages on the training grounds of U.S. military bases. Situated in the deep forests of North Carolina and Louisiana and in a great expanse of desert near Death Valley in California, these villages serve as strange and poignant way stations for soldiers headed off to war, and for those who have fled from it: American troops encounter actors, often recent immigrants from Iraq…