For more than 24 years, this popular photography lecture series has brought artists and photojournalists to Rochester to share their stories and photographs. Generously supported by Thomas N. Tischer, PhD.
Events in this Series
Wish You Were Here: Joy Episalla
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.
Wish You Were Here: Lindsay McIntyre
Lindsay is an Inuk artist and filmmaker who explores place-based knowledge, material practices and personal histories in her experimental/ documentary shorts.
Wish You Were Here: Lola Flash
Lola Flash is an artist and activist whose vibrant photographic work encompasses themes of race, gender, and intergenerational representation.
Baldwin Lee: Looking is Harder Than It Looks
Wish You Were Here: Susan Meiselas
Gregory Halpern: Picturing Place
Ed Kashi: Abandoned Moments
Wish You Were Here Ed Kashi’s most recent monograph features photographs made over a 40-year period, providing a window into his unique voice and craft and presenting glimpses of ordinary life, as well as extraordinary events, struggles, and triumphs.