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Please note: 7Crest Financial Partners Hall will be closed July 16. The museum will be closed on Friday, July 17 and Saturday, July 18 for the George Eastman Award. The screening of Alpsee will resume as regularly scheduled on Sunday, July 19. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Wish You Were Here

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

Wednesday, May 7, 2025, 6 p.m.
Wednesday, April 30, 2025, 5:30 p.m.
Still from As long as there's you, as long as there's me

Wish You Were Here: Joy Episalla

Dryden Theatre

Joy Episalla’s work repositions photography and the moving image into the territory of sculpture. 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.

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Thursday, March 6, 2025, 6 p.m.
Thursday, April 11, 2024, 6 p.m.
Portrait of artist Baldwin Lee

Baldwin Lee: Looking is Harder Than It Looks

Dryden Theatre
A first-generation Chinese American, Baldwin Lee is a photographer and educator known for his photographs of Black communities in the American South. Hear about Lee's journey and artistic process as a photographer and educator during his talk.
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Thursday, February 29, 2024, 6 p.m.

Wish You Were Here: Susan Meiselas

Dryden Theatre
Hear from Susan Meiselas, a documentary photographer based in New York. Meiselas is well-known for her documentation of human rights issues in Latin America. Her photographs are included in North American and international collections.
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Thomas N. Tischer, PhD

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