A Quiet Light: Photographs by Amie Potsic, Jason Francisco, Laurence Salzmann, John Singletary and Milton Lindsay is a photographic exhibition presented by Salzmann’s Photo West Gallery in coordination with Philadelphia’s 20/20 Photography Festival. The show will take place in West Philadelphia’s beautiful Wiota St. Garden, and work will be displayed within the natural beauty of this unique and inviting environment. Each artist will present selected works that address their own personal response to the festival’s overarching theme, history informs the contemporary. Please join us for evenings of food, drink, gathering and art in this bucolic, one of a kind setting.

The exhibition dates are as follows:

Opening Reception-Sunday, September 19th, 2021 from 2:00-6:00 PM,

Closing Reception - Sunday, September 26th, 2021 from 2:00-600 PM

The Exhibition will be held at:

Wiota Street Garden (located at the Intersection of Powelton Avenue and Wiota Street) Philadelphia, PA 19104

About the Artist - Amie Potsic

Amie Potsic is photographer and installation artist living in the Philadelphia area whose work addresses cultural, personal, and natural phenomena through the lens of climate change and social responsibility. Potsic has exhibited her work internationally at the Art Park in Rhodes, Greece; Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Colombia; Medfoundart di Cagliari, Italy; the Royal College of London; the Museum of New Art in Detroit; The Woodmere Art Museum, The National Constitution Center Museum, The Painted Bride, and James Oliver Gallery in Philadelphia; The Delaware Contemporary in Wilmington, DE; Mission 17 in San Francisco; and 626 Gallery in Los Angeles. She won Best in Show for her work in Experimental Photography Today at The Delaware Contemporary in 2015 and was featured in Keystone 1, the inaugural Pennsylvania Photography Biennial, at Silver Eye Center for Photography in Pittsburgh the same year. Potsic received her MFA in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute and BA’s in Photojournalism and English Literature from Indiana University, graduating with Distinguished Honors and a member of Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society. She has held faculty appointments at the University of California at Berkeley, Ohlone College, and the San Francisco Art Institute and published her work in The San Francisco Chronicle and The Philadelphia Inquirer. Potsic has been a guest lecturer at The International Center of Photography and is currently Host of the Art Watch Podcast on WCHE Radio. For more info please visit - http://amiepotsic.com/

About the Artist - Harris Fogel

Harris Fogel is a photographer, curator, independent scholar, and journalist. Previously, Fogel was an Associate Professor of Photography, and served as director and curator of the two photo galleries (Sol Mednick Gallery and Gallery 1401 – the latter of which he founded in 1999) from 1997 to 2018, and was the Program Director and Coordinator of the Photography Program (2006-2008), and Chair of the Media Arts Department (Photo/Film/Animation) at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia (1997-2006). He has directed, curated, and organized more than 275 photography exhibitions over the past thirty years.

He is a documentary and fine-art photographer with an extensive background in digital imaging, criticism, and photo history. He utilizes various formats, including digital cameras, scanners, 35mm, medium format, 4x5-inch and 8x10-inch view cameras, and digital video. His work can be found in the collections of many museums, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The National Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution; the International Center of Photography; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France; and the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. Fogel’s artist books are found in the library of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

He is the Founder, Host and Executive Producer of Mac Edition Radio (https://maceditionradio.com), an online resource for technology, photography, music, audio, and digital imaging. He has lectured on photography around the country and in Europe for the U.S. Department of State. He is a founding member of the Atomic Photographers Guild, created in 1987. Fogel's research on the American Presidency and photography, has led to interviews with President Jimmy Carter, President Gerald R. Ford, and First Lady Betty Ford.

In 2021, he joined the curatorial staff of Culture Assistance, Alnö, Sweden; the Advisory Board of the Dead Pixels Society, based in Jackson, Michigan; and was named a Sharp NEC Displays "Visionaries of Color" program member. #sharpneccolorvisionaries

About the Artist - Laurence Salzmann

Born in 1944, Laurence Salzmann is a native of Philadelphia who has worked as a photographer/ filmmaker since the early 1960's. His projects document the lives of little known groups in America and abroad. He looks at the lives of people ranging from occupants of single room occupancy hotels in New York City to transhumant shepherds in Transylvania, residents of a Mexican village, and Philadelphia Mummers. His photographic study of a nearly extinct Jewish community in Romania was published as The Last Jews of Radauti by Dial/Doubleday in 1983, with text by Ayse Gürsan-Salzmann. His work in Cuba was published in a book by Blue Flower Press under the title: La Lucha/The Struggle. Salzmann's photographic method is deeply informed by his background in anthropology and involves long term participation in and observation of groups or events. His work illustrates how lives and events are shaped by the environments and conditions in which people live. For more information please visit: http://laurencesalzmann.com

About the Artist - John Singletary

John Singletary is a photographer and multimedia artist based in Philadelphia, PA. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from The University of the Arts. His work has been collected by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Center for Fine Art Photography as well as other institutional and private collections. He has exhibited at the Pennsylvania State Museum, LG Tripp Gallery, The James Oliver Gallery, The Sol Mednick Gallery and The Delaware Contemporary Museum. His work has been reviewed and/or featured in Lenscratch Magazine, L’Oeil de la Photographie, the Od Review, Movers and Makers (WHYY) and the Philadelphia Inquirer. Singletary is also a contributing writer for The Photo Review Journal. For more information please visit: https://www.johnsingletaryimaging.com

About the Artist - Milton Lindsay

Milton Lindsay is a documentary photographer based in Philadelphia. Milton's work has focused primarily on the communal energy present in agrian life – from urban settings in America to rural communities in far away lands. His projects have also examined the reclamation pre-colonial cultural identity. His process focuses on building immersive relations with subjects with the goal of creating a concrete photo-text narrative. For more information please visit: https://www.miltonlindsay.com