The name Atlanta Celebrates Photography is dead. Long live the Atlanta Center for Photography.
Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, the photography and lens-based media festival is re-inventing itself again.
The nonprofit is smartly rebranding itself as Atlanta Center for Photography without losing any letters of its acronym ACP, becoming officially a “center” for photography. For the first time in its history, the organization will host exhibitions and live events in its own space, a 500 square-foot, street-level “jewel box space,” as its new director, Lindsey O’Connor, describes it. In the past, the nonprofit has ingeniously partnered with art galleries and venues to host its events.
The new space, named the Atlanta Center for Photography Project Lab, will open October 26 with a solo installation by photography-based artist Kalee Appleton. The Fort Worth, Texas-based artist uses photography, sculpture and drawing to create immersive, digitally manipulated landscapes. The work, according to O’Connor, is representative of the new direction the center wants to embrace — giving lens-based artists a space where they can “take risks, experiment with creative approaches and push the boundaries of the medium’s impact.”
Instead of the organization’s familiar month-long, citywide festival, this year’s programming will be minimal, in part to give time for the new staff to consolidate its new direction. The Atlanta Center for Photography will continue to grow its core programs, including the emerging artist fellowship. Chelsea Mukenya is the 2023 recipient, and her exhibition is on view through October 29 at the Mint gallery.
Fans of the annual festival, portfolio reviews and public art installations will have to wait until next spring. Worth noting is the upcoming exhibition Ghosts of Segregation: Photographs of Rich Frishman, in…
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