CA DSC1442 05-06-2025 - Eaton Fire Burn Zone - Altadena, CA
I am pleased to announce that another one of my Eaton Fire portfolio images was selected for Praxis Gallery’s International Photography Exhibition “Words, Words, Words” which opens on October 18th in Minneapolis, Minnesota and runs through November 8th, 2025. This is the time I have exhibited work in Minnesota and the sixth time an image from my Eaton Fire portfolio has been featured in an exhibition.
The old saying, “A picture is worth a thousand words,” seems to suggest that a photograph transcends language, but words have been a key part of many important photographers’ work—from the billboards and signs in many Walker Evans’ photos to Lee Friedlander’s 2019 book, Signs, for example. The interplay of language and image can create a vivid sense of tension, irony, or poignance. The size and shapes of a font are visual aspects that can carry as much weight as any other aspect in the frame.
Praxis Gallery presents photographic art that includes written language as a fundamental aspect of the composition, including text in the form of signs or fragments of signs, handwriting scrawled over the photo, graffiti and palimpsests, just to name a few iterations of the theme. Juror | Dallas Crow
PRAXIS GALLERY | PHOTO ARTS CENTER
Praxis Gallery and Photographic Arts Center (PPAC) is a community based, non-profit, artist-led organization in Minneapolis that aims to support the development of new and emerging artists through exhibition and education. Our mission is to bring diverse perspectives into focus through lens-based art, creating photographic exhibitions that engage, challenge, inspire, and surprise the public.
As the only non-profit dedicated photographic arts center in Minnesota, PPAC has produced group exhibitions featuring local, regional and international artists. PPAC has presented four local solo exhibitions yearly, and many local multi-artist pop-up exhibits since 2017 - bridging artists and audiences by creating platforms for discovery and discourse through visual art.
PRAXIS GALLERY | PHOTO ARTS CENTER
Ross Anderson | Program Director
Jonathan Pavlica | Gallery Director
Dan Fenner | Analog Director
Elizabeth Flinsch | Consulting Director of Development
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