Lesbian rebels, exotic dancing and domesticity: New York’s Upstate Photography Biennial – in pictures

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The Center for Photography astatine Woodstock (in Kingston, New York) precocious opened nan first-ever New York Upstate Photography Biennial, featuring nan activity of 39 artists who unrecorded and activity crossed nan Hudson vale and beyond. The show, co-curated by Marina Chao and Adam Giles Ryan, highlights nan divers activity of photographers successful nan upstate region. Their images will beryllium connected position until 6 September 2026

Seth David Rubin, Portrait of Laura, from nan bid Placements, 2024. Photograph: Seth David Rubin/CPW
black and achromatic photograph of a personification looking astatine a personification holding a weapon

Morgan Gwenwald, from nan bid The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, 1974

In nan early 1970s, erstwhile Patty Hearst, nan granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst, was kidnapped by nan Symbionese Liberation Army, Morgan Gwenwald taught and photographed members of a lesbian feminist corporate really to sprout rifles successful nan adjacent woods. Inspired by this movement, Gwenwald created a BFA thesis project, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. She later grounded retired of nan creation section astatine Florida State University, which led her to move her camera toward photographing nan lesbian and queer authorities movementsPhotograph: Morgan Gwenwald/CPW
a collage of women’s bodies done different photos

Allison DeBritz, I Feel Everything, 2025

Through her collages, Allison DeBritz intends to situation really mainstream media objectifies women’s bodiesPhotograph: Allison DeBritz/CPW
text starting pinch ‘what is it for illustration to beryllium an american?’ adjacent to a achromatic and achromatic image of a female holding a kid to her chest

Robert Kalman, Beth Davison, 2022

Robert Kalman’s portraits were calved retired of his ongoing task successful which he takes an image of a personification and asks them a azygous question: ‘What’s it for illustration for you to beryllium an American?’ He pairs nan image pinch a handwritten consequence from each personification photographedPhotograph: Robert Kalman/CPW
several forks, immoderate integrative and immoderate crafted of paper, scattered connected woody table

Elizabeth Pedinotti Haynes, Infestation, 2024

In Haynes’s family array series, mundane objects are arranged and altered to rethink their accustomed usability successful nan kitchen. Her bid rethinks nan abstraction of one’s location arsenic a capacity abstraction shaped by one’s expectationsPhotograph: Elizabeth Pedinotti Haynes/CPW
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Kevin Williamson, Dan and Paul by nan River, 2025

Kevin Williamson made his images successful his birthplace, nan Hudson valley. Williamson views nan region arsenic an ever-changing place, often stuck betwixt nan municipality and nan rural, nan past and nan present, and ne'er settling into 1 narrativePhotograph: Kevin Williamson/CPW
suspended, blue-toned images of a personification opinionated inside

Viktorsha Uliyanova, Nina, 2024

Nina is portion of Viktorsha Uliyanova’s ongoing bid titled Quieter than Water, Lower than Grass, which confronts nan forced obedience and conformity imposed connected group successful Russia. Her images are suspended lengths of recycled textiles printed pinch photographs of Soviet sheet buildings and images from her family photograph archive. She argues that nan individual communicative of her activity serves arsenic guidance to nan Soviet authorities and arsenic counter-propagandaPhotograph: Viktorsha Uliyanova/CPW
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Allie Tsubota, from nan bid Dead Letter Room, 2022

Dead Letter Room combines images of Allie Tsubota pinch fictional letters she received from Tamiki Hara that recount his relationship of nan bombing of Hiroshima. Her modern photographs, paired pinch nan correspondence, bespeak connected time, representation and lossPhotograph: Allie Tsubota/CPW
collage of 32 different images of nan nighttime entity

Ann Burke Daly and Marion Belanger, Night Studio: Temporal Dislocations – 365 Days; January 2025

Ann Burke Daly and Marion Belanger began moving connected Night Studio pinch digitized solid sheet negatives from Harvard College Observatory. Women, called ‘computers’, primitively produced nan negatives to catalog and study nan nighttime sky. They worked to harvester nan images pinch their ain exposures, printing and annotating while reworking nan surfaces by hand. Each photograph has aggregate layers that harvester nan past and presentPhotograph: Ann Burke Daly and Marion Belanger/CPW
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Seth David Rubin, Portrait of Laura, from nan bid Placements, 2024

Seth David Rubin constructs a visually fractured reality done mirrors. He argues that his images are a much meticulous practice of reality, arsenic humans’ perceptions are often incomplete and haphazardPhotograph: Seth David Rubin/CPW
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Lyle Ashton Harris, Untitled (Lyle and Robert, Bronx, New York, circa mid-1980s), 2022

Lyle Ashton Harris and his workplace squad precocious recovered images he had taken decades before. The photographs from his years earlier assemblage and done his postgraduate studies are self-portraits and photographs of friends and lovers from nan precocious 1980s done 2000 that dress up Harris’s series, Ektachrome Archive.Photograph: Lyle Ashton Harris/CPW
man lying connected furniture astatine home, pinch a assemblage wall of framed pictures supra him

Luis Manuel Diaz, Untitled (Self Portrait pinch nan Family Tree), 2024

The image is portion of Luis Manuel Diaz’s ongoing bid Canta y No Llores, which comprises decades of images made betwixt his family homes successful agrarian Michoacán, Mexico, and suburban New York state. He uses nan images to research migration and nan things group transportation pinch them erstwhile they commencement a caller life, arsenic good arsenic those they time off behindPhotograph: Luis Manuel Diaz/CPW
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Meryl Meisler, Six Rox Republic Legs connected The Bar, Le Bain, New York, NY, June 2025

Meryl Meisler’s photographs nan behind-the-scenes, capacity and region of nan nightlife she has been portion of for decades. Her images are a first-person relationship of her community, grounded successful familiarity and trustPhotograph: Meryl Meisler/CPW

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