PRIMARY EXPOSURE Fatherly Photography

Primary Exposure: Fatherly Photography
Presents six contemporary photographers with Harry Callahan,
a 20th century pioneer of artistic documents of family.

Harry Callahan
Michael Chovan-Dalton
Yoav Horesh
Claudio Nolasco
Jesse Lenz
Dennis Santella
Mark Steinmetz

Opening Event: 26th of April, 2pm - 6pm.

Barbara, c.1953, gelatin silver print, 8 x 10 inches, Harry Callahan
copyright The Estate of Harry Callahan, courtesy Pace Gallery

Pablo, 2020, digital pigment print, 24 x 32 inches, Claudio Nolasco
 

August, 2022, Kittery, ME, gelatin silver print, 11 x 14 inches, Yoav Horesh

Untitled, 2015, gelatin silver print, 20 x 8 inches, Dennis Santella

Cynthia, Veronica, Matteo, 2011, digital pigment print, 17 x 25 inches, Michael Chovan-Dalton

 

untitled, gelatin silver print, 16 x 16 inches, Jesse Lenz

Amelia, San Francisco, December, 2018, gelatin silver print, 16 x 20 inches, Mark Steinmetz
Courtesy Yancery Richardson Gallery

PRESS RELEASE

(March 31, 2025 — New York, NY) — Affirmation Arts is pleased to announce PRIMARY EXPOSURE, Fatherly Photography, a new group exhibition exploring the complex photographic relationship between fathers and their children. The exhibition is on view from April 22, 2025 and features an engaging selection of photographs from photographers Harry Callahan (1912-1999), Michael Chovan-Dalton (b.1967), Yoav Horesh (b. 1975), Jesse Lenz (b. 1988), Claudio Nolasco (b. 1981), Mark Steinmetz (b. 1961) and Dennis Santella (b. 1981)  These intimate family moments, made into solid photographic works offer profound insight into the artistic thought processes of these photographers, providing rare access to quiet, private, contemplative moments that don’t often appear in their work, books or exhibitions.

Are they capturing their experience as fathers, the way fatherhood has shifted their world? Or are they photographing their children’s world—or perhaps even their own childhoods reflected back at them? In truth, they are capturing all of it, seeing, feeling, and understanding it all with greater depth, now that they are fathers.

From the exhibition text by Elinor Carucci.

 

Exhibition is on view 22nd April to 30 May 2025

Opening event: 26th of April, 2pm - 6pm.

Gallery hours M-F 10am-6pm, or by appointment.

 

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