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AUGUSTA — A photography exhibit, “Everyday Maine,” featuring more than 190 photographs from 74 Maine photographers recently opened at The Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine, 46 University Drive.
Curated by Bruce Brown, the exhibit features a collection of Maine’s diversity across ability, economics, gender, geography, national origin, race, sexual orientation and work.
“Everyday Maine” will be on display through the end of December at the Michael Klahr Center on the campus of the University of Maine at Augusta. The center is free and open to the public Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
“Our goal is to show in these times in our state, there is no ‘us’ and ‘them,’ there’s ‘we,'” said Associate Director David Greenham, whose work is among that featured in the show. “We can come together in celebrating and respecting our differences.”
Brown and Greenham recruited a group of Maine photographers to share photos for the exhibit, including Melonie Bennett, Jeffrey Becton, Tonee Harbert, Sean Alonzo Harris, Tanja Hollander, Michael Cullivan, Jocelyn Lee, Peter Ralston, Jack Montgomery, Cig Harvey and many others. The exhibit also features photographs by the late Berenice Abbot and Olive Pierce.
Nearly half of the photographers in the exhibit are women.
“Part of the inspiration for this show was to have an opportunity to sense the kinds of diversity that many of us take for granted,” Greenham said. “Our work at the HHRC takes us to every area of the state, and we see how our diversity plays out in so many interesting ways in our large mostly rural state. This exhibit reveals that diversity, but also celebrates all the qualities that make Maine so great. In the end it’s a very uplifting and inspirational look at Maine.”
For more information, visit hhrcmaine.org.
HOTO: One of the photos featured in the ‘Everyday Maine’ exhibit at the Holocaust and Human Rights Center in Augusta. (David Greenham/Holocaust and Human Rights Center photo)
