Online Group Exhibition - "Street Scenes/Streets, Seen" July 2023
Analog Forever Magazine is proud to present "Street Scenes/Streets, Seen," an online group exhibition featuring 50 photographs created with film and analog processes, curated by fine art photographer and writer and curator for Analog Forever, Niniane Kelley!
Niniane Kelley writes:
In its way, street photography is arguably the most basic and democratic form of photography: you walk outside; you look around; and you see what you see. When we enter the public sphere we are presented with an endlessly fluctuating tableau of the human experience playing out in front of us. All the world’s a stage, and that stage is our sidewalks, parks, subways, all of the culturally constructed places which form the backdrop to our daily lives. It is the way we inhabit and experience these spaces which is at the heart of street photography, these images which capture fleeting moments which exist in and reflect upon the society and times in which they occurred.
The images in this gallery (to steal an assessment from my partner) celebrate the act of looking. These photographers move through the world with curiosity and awareness, looking and searching and being attuned to the scenes playing out all around them. This is the photographer as observer and voyeur, watching the anonymous to-and-fro of humanity in motion as it plays out in front of their camera. They are magicians and thieves, freezing these stolen moments in time so that something which was transitory, a mere flash which even the players themselves might not have been aware of, becomes a fixed replica of reality which we can revisit time and again.
~ Niniane Kelley
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ABOUT THE CURATOR
Niniane Kelley is a fine art photographer living and working in San Francisco and Lake County, California. A native of the Bay Area, she has a BFA in Photography from San Jose State University.
Drawn to photography for both the immediacy of the image making process and the intrinsic alchemy of the darkroom ritual, she crafts the majority of her imagery using traditional 19th century processes which give each piece its own unique character.
She has previously worked in fine art photography galleries and was a photographer and manager at the San Francisco tintype studio Photobooth. She teaches photography workshops in the Bay Area and surrounding environs.
Connect with Niniane Kelley on her Website, Twitter, and Instagram!