Frances F. Denny: Let Virtue Be Your Guide April 1- May 31 Reception & Book Signing: April 1, 5 – 7:30 PM Denny’s photographs examine the artist’s family, and their deeply rooted history as early settlers of New England (one ancestor, John Howland, was a deckhand aboard The Mayflower). Unearthing the idea of feminine “virtue”
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Francesco Pergolesi: Heroes May 6 – July 1, 2016 OPENING RECEPTION WITH THE ARTIST: Friday, May 6, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. Francesco Pergolesi was raised in Spoleto, a small Italian village filled with artisan shops and small businesses. Now splitting his time between Spoleto and Barcelona, Pergolesi creates photographic tableaus inspired by memories from his
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Hossein Fatemi APRIL 21 – JULY 10, 2016 Since 1997, Chicago-based photojournalist Hossein Fatemi (Iranian, b. 1980; resides in Chicago, IL) has traveled throughout the Middle East, covering global social issues and current affairs. His series An Iranian Journey documents the daily life of youth in Fatemi’s homeland of Iran, presenting an alternative picture of
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Picture Me Student Exhibition MAY 5 – 7, 2016 Now in its fifteenth year, this annual student exhibition features works made by teens who participate in Picture Me, an afterschool photography program sponsored by the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago (MoCP) at three Chicago high schools: Curie Metropolitan High School, Juarez Community
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Context 2016: Group Show March 11 – April 23 Reception: March 18, 6 – 9 PM Filter Photo Executive Director, Jennifer Murray, found an interesting and unifying theme through the many fantastic submissions. Focusing on the fragility of relationships between ourselves and the world around us, Context 2016 is Filter’s second effort to survey the
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Burnt Generation: Contemporary Iranian Photography APRIL 21 – JULY 10, 2016 The group exhibition Burnt Generation: Contemporary Iranian Photography takes the complex history and troubled politics of Iran as its backdrop. With photography ranging from documentary photojournalism to elaborately constructed tableaux, together the images in this exhibition replace familiar stereotypes with personal and cultural narratives
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Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison: Precipice March 11 – April 30, 2016 OPENING RECEPTION WITH THE ARTISTS: Friday, March 11, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison’s newest series, Precipice, combines their love of theater and performance. In each image, we see a man bearing witness to his own desires and struggles. This can be
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Don Getsug Document: Forty Years After the F.S.A. February 5 – 27 Reception: February 5, 6 – 9 PM Inspired by the great documentary photographers of the F.S.A. and his own history in photojournalism, Don Getsug worked with a friend in the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) to document emergency food programs in some of
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MoCP at 40 exhibition January 25 – April 10 Opening Reception Thursday, January 28, 5-7pm MoCP 600 S. Michigan Ave. Chicago, IL 60605

Daniel W. Coburn: The Hereditary Estate January 8 – February 26 My family history is haunted by instances of suicide, severe domestic violence, and substance abuse. Frustrated by the lack of images in my own family archive to document this series of tragedies, I set out to create a more potent and accurate supplement to
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