BRATTLEBORO-The Vermont Center for Photography (VCP) presents a three-part Artist Talk series running June through September, featuring photographers Harvey Stein, Barbara Bosworth, and Ace Lehner.
Each talk offers the Brattleboro community an opportunity to engage directly with working photographers whose practices span documentary street photography, large-format landscape work, and portrait-based inquiry into identity and representation.
VCP opens the series Wednesday, June 17, at 6:30 p.m., with Stein, a street photographer who has spent more than 50 years walking the streets of New York with his camera — building “one of the most expansive bodies of work in the American documentary tradition,” organizers wrote in a news release.
A longtime faculty member at the International Center of Photography (ICP), author of 10 books, and exhibiting photographer with work held in over 60 permanent collections, Stein “brings a lifetime of hard-won insight to questions of approaching strangers, sustaining long-term projects, and staying creatively alive over the long haul of a career.”
VCP welcomes Bosworth, a large-format photographer whose work explores the relationship between people and the natural world, Friday, July 17, at 5 p.m. Bosworth describes photography as a “long look” — a practice of sustained, quiet attention that she understands as a form of care for our shared environment.
Her lecture will trace the arc of a decades-long practice that moves fluidly between intimate observation and expansive landscape, inviting audiences to slow down and reconsider their own relationships to the places they inhabit.
The series closes Saturday, Sept. 5, at 5:30 p.m. with Lehner, photographer and professor at the University of Vermont. In a talk titled “Portraiture, Identity, and Representation,” Lehner will discuss their creative practice and explore the ways photographic images shape, challenge, and expand how we understand ourselves and one another — examining portraiture as both a personal and cultural act.
For more information about programming, gallery hours, or other offerings, visit vcphoto.org.
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