For more than 26 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: Deana Lawson
Deana Lawson makes photographs that explore the Black familiar and its relationship to lore, global histories, and mystery traditions.
Wish You Were Here: Ahndraya Parlato
Ahndraya Parlato is an artist and writer who combines photography and writing to explore psychology, fantasy, and perception. Throughout her career, she has repeatedly engaged with the notion of “reality” and various gendered social constructs.
Wish You Were Here: Philip Montgomery
Philip Montgomery chronicles the complexities of American life, with its fractures and forms of connection. His images speak to an America in a constant state of transition.
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: Joy Episalla
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.
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.