IN OUR VIEW – A community perspective.

This exhibition will be a culmination of a community art project in which ArtRage Gallery works with community members and community organizations in the Hawley-Green and Northside neighborhoods. ArtRage will get cameras into the hands of neighborhood residents and ask them to capture their lives and community through documentary photography. A professional photographer will work with residents to guide them on the social documentary process. Not only will this exhibition be a testimony to the times, it will be a social-bonding experience for our diverse neighborhood; a neighborhood whose current residents include refugees from many war-torn nations, long time city dwellers of mixed income and a population of people new to the area working to establish roots in a community of their choice – all living side-by-side as neighbors.

We were inspired to create this exhibition after exhibiting the social documentary photography of two brilliant Upstate New York artists; Buffalo’s Milton Rogovin and Syracuse’s Marjory Wilkins.

“Photography represents a universal language that communicates ideas to persons regardless of educational level, reading skills or social status and as such, is an ideal vehicle to promote understanding and good will between cultures.”

-Photographer Bill Wright