An exhibition of photographs made by North Carolina-based photographers: Jimmy Fountain, Gadisse Lee, Lee Nisbet, Cornell Watson

October 5, 2022 – January 20, 2023

Artist Reception October 7, 2022, 5:30 – 8 PM

MAKE // TAKE is an exhibition of photographic works by North Carolina-based image makers, curated by gallerist and photographer Lindsay Metivier of Peel Gallery + Photo Lab. The exhibition title evokes the conversation about whether or not photographs are made or taken. Semantically, you typically takesomething that already exists, whereas you make something new. Perhaps photographs with heavy post-production editing have been made and those straight out of the printer or darkroom are taken? Maybe we take photographs documenting, reality, the everyday, or to use as memory objects while we make photographs intentionally arranging elements in the frame or altering the image after it’s been taken? Jimmy Fountain, Gadisse Lee, Lee Nisbet, and Cornell Watson each approach the creation of their photographic images in unique ways.

Fountain and Watson approach photography with what some may think of as more traditional, capturing moments through travel, discovery and documenting and presenting reality. Lee and Nisbet manipulate and create the scenes and/or structures for making a picture. But even that initial differential becomes blurred when you consider how each of the artists consider cropping, composition, exposure and so many other artistic components.

Photograph: Cornell Watson

Photograph: Gadisse Lee