City As Portrait: Culture Lab
Thu, Nov 05
|Joseph Family Gallery at BCAT
Join us for an exhibition of photographic works by young artists exploring downtown Buffalo through experimentation, observation, and personal expression. Working with photographers DJ Carr and Nando Alvarez-Perez, students explored street photography and studio practice before developing their own
Time & Location
Nov 05, 2026, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Joseph Family Gallery at BCAT, 368 Sycamore St, Buffalo, NY 14204, USA
About the event
Culture Lab: City as Portrait brings together photographic works created by young photographers exploring what can happen when traditional photographic practice becomes a starting point for experimentation.
Working with Buffalo photographer DJ Carr, students engaged with the tried-and-true practice of street photography, learning to observe, respond to, and photograph the city as it unfolds around them. These experiences were bookended by the highly controlled studio practice of photographer Nando Alvarez-Perez, where students worked with composition, lighting, objects, and intentional image-making. Between these two approaches, students began to consider photography not simply as a way to document what they see, but as a way to construct, manipulate, interpret, and make something of their own.
The works in this exhibition begin with those foundational photographic practices. What they become, however, is something much more personal. Each student took the tools, techniques, and ways of seeing they encountered and pushed them into their…
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