"Meet the Photographers": A No-Show

January 23, 2008 at 1:36pm

With five well-known photographers showing, I was expecting the Community Darkroom Gallery's "Meet the Photographers" opening to be packed. As it is a rather small space, I also expected walls covered with photos. Not so, on either count.

I walked in to find only two people and�25 prints. That's approximately five prints per photog, which sounds adequate, but there was way more white wall space exposed. I'm wondering why they didn't show more, maybe placing them two-up, instead of the steady stream of one photo after another. No, they wouldn't have to put them almost on the floor like at�Image City, but more would have been nice. And using IC's idea of nametags would have been handy, too. There were more people in the back room/snacking station, but most of them seemed to come with the gallery. If any of the showing photographers were there, I couldn't tell. And why didn't they use the back room space, too, as it's even larger than the gallery area?

The photos were nice, though. Maybe the lectures will fill the space. I left feeling unfulfilled.

Next up: Cheerleaders at the Dome

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dan said on Jan. 24, 2008 at 8:09pm

"...almost on the floor like at Image City..."

We at Image City have been discussing this issue for quite a while, and there is apparently no easy solution....keeping images "off the floor" means that each exhibitor will be constrained to exhibit fewer images, OR, that we should raise the panels higher off the floor. In a way, we did try the latter once a long time ago, and we found it unsatisfactory because it made the gallery look much smaller and hid the photographs on the walls. We may try a compromise solution by raising the panels a smaller amount and hanging the photographs on the walls a little higher. All life seems to be a compromise !

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