Roxanne Huber, *The Final Weeks*, Longmont CO. Image courtesy of Colorado Photographic Arts Center.

Colorado Photographic Arts Center | Tell Me A Story: The Role of Storytelling in Photography (Group Show), November 30, 2023 – January 6, 2024

“If you were asked to tell a story with photographs, how many images would you need to get your point across? What if you could only choose one?

“Opening December 1st at the Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Tell Me a Story highlights the power of storytelling in a single frame. The exhibition features 32 photographs by 32 local, national, and international artists selected from over 500 submissions by juror Mary Statzer, Curator of Prints and Photographs at the New Mexico Museum of Art.

““We’re used to seeing photographic storytelling in books and exhibits when there’s room to include at least 10-20 images. But even if you’re the best photographer on Earth, it’s extremely challenging to tell a story in a single frame,” said Samantha Johnston, CPAC’s Executive Director & Curator. “You must consider every detail. You have to be ruthless about what to include – and what to leave out.”

“The exhibit includes a range of styles, from landscapes to still-lifes, portraiture to abstraction – but each one tells a unique story that stands on its own.”

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Francie Bishop Good, *Walkover*, 2000. *From the series Carly TV,* Fuji Crystal Archive Print. 38 1/2 x 50 in. (97.8 x 127 cm). Gift of Gallery Camino Real, 2005.93. Courtesy of Francie Bishop Good

Norton Museum of Art | Personal Space: On Photography and Being (Group Show), December 2, 2023 – February 18, 2024

“Some of our most palpable human moments are uniquely contained in photographs. These memory snapshots—from salty sea air crystalizing on one’s skin or the cacophony of children in motion, to the quiet respite of an underwater dive or totalizing anguish of crisis and loss: to live is to encounter the entire emotional spectrum. Personal Space: On Photography and Being presents a selection of photographs from the Norton Museum’s permanent collection, featuring work by Valérie Belin, Larry Clark, Awol Erizku, Donna Ferrato, Eric Fischl, Sarah Jones, Annie Leibovitz, Ryan McGinley, and Jack Pierson, among others. Conceived as a contemporary reflection on themes addressed in Presence: The Photography Collection of Judy Glickman Lauder (on view through March 10 2024), this exhibition explores what it is to exist in this world.

“Organized by the Norton Museum of Art. Support for this exhibition was provided by the Sydelle and Arthur I. Meyer Endowment Fund and the Michael M. Rea Endowment for Special Exhibitions.”

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Michael Kenna, *Spring Poplar Trees,* Pavia, Italy, 2019

Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery | Michael Kenna: Trees, December 2, 2023 – February 10, 2024

“Michael Kenna (b. 1953, Widnes, Lancashire, England) will have his fifth solo show at PDNB Gallery this fall season. His show coincides with the release of his book, TREES, published by Èditions Skira, Paris and another stunningly beautiful new book, Photographs and Stories, published by Nazraeli Press.

“About two years ago, PDNB Gallery Co-Director, Missy Finger, read Richard Powers’ Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Overstory. In this novel, there are individual stories with characters that find common connection with trees. One of the main characters is a woman who is a botanist that believes that trees talk to another. “The biochemical behavior of individual trees may make sense only when we see them as members of a community,”

“This storytelling was quite compelling, and the botanist character helped define the importance of trees. She speaks of forests as an ecosystem that cannot be separated, cleaned out, but must remain intact, the dead with the living.

““There are no individuals in a forest, no separable events. The bird and the branch it sits on are a joint thing. A third or more of the food a big tree makes may go to feed other organisms. Even different kinds of trees form partnerships. Cut down a birch, and a nearby Douglas-fir may suffer…”

“At the end of reading this novel, one can hopefully appreciate the tree in a different light. Can we save our own lives by saving the trees?”

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