ArtBeat: 38th Annual Photography Regional [Get Visual]
Review by David Brickman
At the age of 38, the Photography Regional has come full circle. Originally conceived as a counterpoint to the Mohawk-Hudson Regional, which did not accept photography until the early ’90s, the Photo Regional has always been popular with professionals, artists, amateurs, professors and students; and it has always made a splash with audiences, and in local media.
But has it evolved?
The current iteration of the show, at Fulton Street Gallery in Troy through Saturday, April 2, looks and feels eerily like the earliest Photo Regionals – it was mounted this year first as an all-inclusive salon, and then as a juror selection (following the original format); it includes a significant number of the same names that participated in it way back then; the prints and images, though mainly produced with digital technology, look a lot like prints and images of the ’70s; and it is in the same city as the first Photo Regional (which was hosted by the Rensselaer County Council on the Arts, now known as the Arts Center of the Capital Region).
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