COLLECTED: CONNECTING PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE ACQUISITIONS

OPENING Day: September 3

OPENING RECEPTION: OCTOBER 3

Located at the Southeast Museum of Photography

The Southeast Museum of Photography’s collection has been carefully cultivated over the years, representing a wide range of photographic styles, genres and techniques; Collected presents unique selections from the museum’s repository of nearly 6,000 objects. 

Uniting seminal works of art from historic and contemporary photographers alike, this exhibition aims to showcase the museum’s diverse range of holdings, drawing connections from longstanding to recent acquisitions. 

Photographs range from iconic portraits to abstract figures and forms, ordinary landscapes to surreal dreamscapes and from interpretive still lifes to alternative processes.

Christian Weber : Explosions

November 7, 2024 - January 7, 2025

The Southeast Museum of Photography is pleased to present an ‘explosive’ series of works by artist Christian Weber. The exhibition title is taken from his monograph of the same name (published by Kerber Verlag in 2014) and consists of multiple high-speed images of fireballs and explosives ignited in mid-air. Each resulting shape is unique: some resemble nebula while others evoke the twisting structures of DNA.

“Henri Cartier-Bresson once said that ‘life is once, forever.’

Time is an interesting concept. It has been defined as the measured period during which an action, process, or condition exists. It has also been defined as a nonspatial continuum, measured in terms of events, each succeeding one another from the past through thepresent to the future.

The following photographs represent momentary phenomena, imperceptible to the human eye.”

—Christian Weber

Documented.

A Collective History: 1930-1970

Recovery, Discovery & Reform in America

November 7, 2024 - January 7, 2025

Documented features a selection of historic imagery from the museum’s permanent collection, encompassing works produced over a period of four decades, from 1930 - 1970.

The Art of the everyday

CURATED BY Ashton Guitard, RECIPIENT OF THE 2024 GARY R. LIBBY CURATORIAL SCHOLARSHIP

LOCATED AT THE NEWS JOURNAL CENTER

ON Display May 23, 2024 - March, 2025

Awarded annually, the Gary R. Libby Curatorial Scholarship enables students to learn about the various aspects of producing an exhibition, allowing for a sequence of decision-making from curatorial concept to completion. Over the course of the semester, students meet with Southeast Museum of Photography staff who assist the process and provide guidance. This exhibition is the culmination of this process from start to finish.

The Art of The Everyday will open on May 23rd, 2024. An opening reception will be held in the Gary R. Libby Gallery at the News Journal Center on May 23rd, from 5pm to 7pm.

WE ARE ART VOL 2: POTENT NARRATIVES, POTENT PEOPLE

February 1, 2025 - APRIL 16, 2025

Photographers and curators James and LaToya Carey capture the essence of Central Florida through the lives and stories of its people. Their work vividly portrays the Black experience, skillfully using the interplay of light and shadow to reveal its beauty. Each thoughtfully crafted narrative enriches the exhibit, celebrating every individual as a masterpiece in their own right.

Patterns of Rupture

Matt Kushan, Unum Babar and Sayera Anwar

An expat artist is always in the state of conundrum – they are never sure whether their gaze is that of a seasoned “local” or one of an outsider at the risk of exoticizing the subject. This applies to both homes, old and new, the displaced artist never sure where the state of belonging exists anymore, where the connection is stronger, and what is actually “home”.

This exhibition attempts to bring together three artists at various stages of expatriation between Pakistan and the US. They are tied together through a web of relationships – both personal and professional – one of the overlaps being their interest in the patterns that arise through their observation of a culture and land, either adopted or born into. Patterns of pop culture, ornamentation, ritual, the every day, urban life and those that arise from the repetition of coming home knowing that a rupture in the relationship is not far in the future.

#TITLE ME: AN EXPLORATION OF IDENTITY, MEMORY, AND CULTURAL DISPLACEMENT

Opening Exhibition: March 7, 6 p.m.

This profound solo exhibition emerges from the collaboration between Jetshri Bhadviya, Madhurima Ganguly, Lisa Caliendo, and Bhadviya’s students at DSC. Together, they unravel the complex intersections of identity, memory, pain, and cultural displacement, offering a richly textured experience that bridges personal and collective narratives.

Through photography, video, sound, and performance, Bhadviya investigates how bodies interact with space, provoking conversations about identity in social, political, and spiritual dimensions. Her work challenges societal norms, disrupts stereotypes, and interrogates gender politics, creating immersive sensory experiences that blur the lines between presence and absence, individuality and collectivity. By abstracting identifiable characteristics, she transforms the body into a universal symbol of the soul, inviting audiences to explore themes of nature, nurture, and transcendence. Her works also grapple with physical and emotional pain, reflecting how immigrant bodies endure and navigate healthcare systems while contending with societal biases

Thesis & departures 2024

UCF and DSC Photography graduates

May 2 - July 31, 2024

Reception: May 2 at 6p.m.

Thesis & Departures is the annual showcase of works by UCF Photography B.S. and DSC Photographic Technology A.S. graduates, celebrating their achievements throughout their time enrolled in the program.