New Wish You Were Here Lecture Series at George Eastman Museum

For more than twenty-four years, the popular Wish You Were Here photography lecture series has brought artists and photojournalists to Rochester, New York to share their stories and photographs. This year, George Eastman Museum will present three lectures with renowned artists Lola Flash, Joy Episalla, and Lindsay McIntyre.

Wish You Were Here: Lola Flash

Thursday, March 6, 6 p.m., Dryden Theatre
 

Lola Flash is an artist and activist whose vibrant photographic work encompasses themes of race, gender, and intergenerational representation. Recently, Flash’s projects have used portraiture to push back against dominant beauty standards and negative depictions of marginalized communities, instead promoting and amplifying positive visual representations of people who are often overlooked. Visitors are invited to hear Lola Flash speak about these experiences and the work that they have produced over the past four decades. A book signing will follow the lecture.

Wish You Were Here: Joy Episalla
Wednesday, April 30, 5:30 p.m., Dryden Theatre

Joy Episalla’s work repositions photography and the moving image into the territory of sculpture. In her film As long as there's you, as long as there's me, she sequences and parlays disparate filmed moments into a travelogue of non-performance performance. From a queer/feminist perspective, Episalla engages with the dynamics of transformation, multiplicity and hybridity through the mutability of materials, observation, process, time, movement, seriality, and sound. In their photo-derived sculptural work, such as the foldtograms, the light sensitive (silver gelatin or chromogenic) objects result from performative and out-of-sequence actions and processes, which are then installed in site-responsive situations.

Wish You Were Here: Lindsay McIntyre
Wednesday, May 7, 6 p.m., Dryden Theatre

Lindsay McIntyre is a multi-disciplinary artist of Inuit and settler descent who often works in the medium of analog film. Active since 1999, McIntyre has made over forty films that display her command of handmade techniques applied to a range of filmmaking styles that explore themes of portraiture, place, form, and personal histories. McIntyre’s upcoming projects include her first feature-length narrative film entitled The Words We Can’t Speak. She is a fellow of Sundance Native Lab (2024), Forge Projects (2024) and COUSIN Collective (2022), and she teaches Film + Screen Arts at Emily Carr University of Art + Design on unceded Coast Salish Territory in Vancouver. View Lindsay McIntyre: Ajjigiingiluktaaqtugut (We Are All Different) (Super 16mm to digital, Canada 2021, 17 mins.) in George Eastman Museum’s Multipurpose Hall through June 1.

The Wish You Were Here series is generously supported by Thomas N. Tischer, PhD.

Admission
Free for members and students with ID, for SNAP and EBT cardholders and their families, and for active-duty military personnel and their families. $15 nonmembers. For additional ticket information, hours, and other details, visit eastman.org.

About the George Eastman Museum
Founded in 1947, the George Eastman Museum is the world’s oldest photography museum and one of the largest film archives in the United States, located on the historic Rochester estate of entrepreneur and philanthropist George Eastman, the pioneer of popular photography. Its holdings comprise more than 400,000 photographs, 28,000 motion picture films, the world’s preeminent collection of photographic and cinematographic technology, one of the leading libraries of books related to photography and cinema, and extensive holdings of documents and other objects related to George Eastman. As a research and teaching institution, the Eastman Museum has an active publishing program, and its L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation’s graduate program (a collaboration with the University of Rochester) makes critical contributions to film preservation. For more information, visit eastman.org.

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ATTN. Media: High-resolution images for Wish You Were Here can be provided by request.