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Sasse at 75 |
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"I photograph points in time and space that will never be the same again." — Gene Sasse Gene Sasse turns 75 this August. After nearly sixty years behind a camera, he is marking the milestone with a selection of his own black and white photographs, made between 1980 and today. The work moves across three subjects he has kept returning to: landscape, architecture, and botanicals. A stretch of open ground. The flat face of a building. A single plant held against the light. The subjects change from one wall to the next, but the same act runs under all of them. Someone stopped and looked long enough for the ordinary to become a picture. That habit of looking is the whole exhibit. Sasse at 75 is not a career retrospective in the usual sense. It doesn't move through decades of commercial assignments or name-drop clients. It stays close to the way he actually works, at ground level, with a photographer who is still willing to slow down in front of a thing most people walk past. There's a kind of discipline in that. Most photographers chase a subject. Sasse tends to let one find him, in a field, along a wall, at the base of a tree. A place he already knew changes once he gives it enough attention. Nothing in the show was rare or far away. It was simply seen, by someone who showed up to look on purpose. The prints carry the years in their own way. Some are silver gelatin, made in a darkroom. Some are archival pigment, made decades later. Set side by side, they hold together without argument. Sasse first picked up a camera in 1968, and has not stopped looking since. All these years on, the everyday still holds his attention. If anything, the years have only sharpened his patience for it. The photographs in this show ask viewers to slow down and do the same: to look again at the hillside, the wall, the leaf, and find that none of it was ever really ordinary at all. It is a fitting way to mark 75 years. Not with a survey of where the camera has traveled, but with a return to the one thing it has always asked of him: to stop, and look. |
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| Aug 1st-Sep 26th 2026 Art-Talk: Aug 2nd 2pm Reception: Aug 16th & Sep 20th 2-4pm |
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