Laurie Beck Peterson
Swash, 2025
Cyano-Phytogram, backlit box
Frame: 12-1/2 x 15-1/2"

This unique piece is on ortho lith film and is fixed, but as with all film, colors and tones could shift over time.

Artist Statement
The phytogram print, Swash, is part of the exhibition Actinic Traces, a body of work that explores the quiet, transformative interactions between light, plants, and time. I invite sunlight, water, and organic matter to participate in image-making, blurring the boundary between artist and environment. This is a collaborative act with the more-than-human world.

When making a phytogram, plants are first used to make a plant-based developer and then are pressed onto light-sensitive film, where their own biochemical signatures of tannins, oils, moisture, etch abstract forms and textures onto the surface. The backlit box presentation illuminates the true qualities of film by allowing light to pass through, almost like looking through a microscope. This reveals magnified textures and details that may otherwise go unnoticed.

Bio

Laurie Beck Peterson (b. 1962) is a U.S.-based artist known for her work with 19th-century photographic processes. Her practice explores impermanence, ephemerality, and the cycles of growth and decay in the natural world. In her most recent projects, she incorporates sustainable, plant-based printing techniques that align with her environmental themes.

Peterson is currently on faculty at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture in Philadelphia, PA, where she teaches contemporary applications of historical photographic methods. Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally and is held in numerous public and private collections.

Notably, she was selected to exhibit at the Royal Photographic Society's International Photography Exhibition 164 (IPE 164) in Bristol, UK. In 2025 this work was also on view at The Fox Talbot Museum at Lacock Abbey and is now in the museums collection. Other exhibition venues include the Woodmere Art Museum, The Delaware Contemporary, FotoNostrum Gallery, and The Museum of Gloucester.

Her work has been featured in publications such as Rfotofolio, The Hand Magazine, Gum Printing: A Step-by-Step Manual, Santa Fe Photographic Workshop Portraits, and Anthotype Emulsions (Volumes 1 and 3) and most recently is featured in the book Eroding Forms, launched at the 2025 Ephemere Photo Fest, Tokyo, Japan. She is represented by UpStart Modern Gallery in Sausalito, California.

Joel Katz
Gibellina, Sicily / Cinecittá, Rome
Photograph
Paper: 13 x 19"

Artist Bio

Joel Katz is a designer, photographer, and educator known for his work in information design, graphic design, and wayfinding. A recipient of the Rome Prize in 2002, he spent a year at the American Academy in Rome, marking his transition from film to digital photography.

His book And I Said No Lord, documenting Mississippi in 1964, was published by the University of Alabama Press in 2014. Katz studied at Yale University with Walker Evans. His design work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum.

Katz has lectured internationally and taught design at the University of the Arts.

Mel D. Cole
Black Ball, 2020
Archival digital print
12 x 18"

Vincent D. Feldman
Convention Hall, Philadelphia, 2005
Archival pigment print from a large format film negative
21 x 32"
20/20

Provenance: Print was framed by the Philadelphia Atheneum for the exhibition City Abandoned: Selected Photographs by Vincent D. Feldman, September 11 - October 31, 2015

Artist Statement
The photograph of the demolition of Convention Hall is from the series City Abandoned, Charting the Loss of Civic Institutions in Philadelphia. This photograph appears in a double page spread on pages 107-108 in the 2014 award winning monograph book by the photographer.

Artist Bio
Vincent D. Feldman has photographed architecture and the urban landscape for nearly three decades. After receiving his B. A. from George Washington University in 1989, he spent several months visiting and photographing youth squatter communities throughout Europe. These autonomous movements have been redeveloping abandon government, military and industrial sites across Europe since the 1960's. As examples of urban historic preservation and culture building executed with little or no funds they left a lasting impression on Feldman.

When he returned to Philadelphia in 1991 his experiences in Europe began to help magnify and focus his insights on architectural subject matter, particularly the myriad issues that can confront historic buildings. The codes and questions, the particulars of design and adaptations, the marks of success and failure in both public and private architecture, are some of the principal motifs found in Feldman's body of work.

From 1993 to 2006 Feldman worked extensively on his Philadelphia: City Abandoned portfolio. This photographic collection of cast off civic buildings and infrastructure is a personal journey and investigation into what had become of this once teaming metropolis. This detailed exploration of early to mid-modern society in Philadelphia, through the looking glass of it's architectural presence is also a parallel examination of this nations tragic decline of the Common Good.

Feldman's master's thesis at the Tyler School of Art (1997) represented his first compilation of this work in gelatin silver prints. In 2001 he was the recipient of a Pew Fellowship in the Arts. This grant was significant in aiding much of the location shooting and cataloging as well as also being critical in providing the resources to make high quality digital prints culled from nearly two thousand 4 x 5 inch negatives. City Abandoned: Charting the Loss of Civic Institutions in Philadelphia, was published by Paul Dry Books in the Fall of 2013 and contains over 90 duotone plates and 60 pages of text.

Feldman lives and works in Philadelphia. His work is in the collections of the The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Allentown Art Museum, the Free Library of Philadelphia, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Zeit-Foto Salon, KOWA, Tokyo as well as in numerous private collections.

John Joyce
Ian, Mexico City, 2025
Platinum palladium print
Image: 2-1/2 x 2-1/2"
Frame: 14 x 11"
Variable edition

Artist Statement

This image is from an ongoing series of portraits taken in Mexico City for over a decade.

Artist Bio

John Joyce (Collingswood, NJ) is a photographer specializing in traditional and alternative processes, including gum bichromate, cyanotype, and his preferred medium, platinum-palladium. Recently, he has also explored sustainable plant-based methods such as anthotypes and chlorophyll printing. Working primarily with medium format film, Joyce creates small contact prints-often no larger than 2½" × 2½"-rich in detail and delicacy, inviting close engagement from the viewer.

Joyce has worked in alternative process photography for over twenty-five years. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, PIX: The Print and Picture Collection of The Free Library of Philadelphia, and private collections including those of artists Ann Hamilton and Pedro Slim.

Benjamin MacMaster
American Dreams, 2016
Photograph on Hahnemuhle Baryta paper
Paper: 8 x 12"
Frame: 12 x 16"
open

Artist Statement
This image is part of a body of work titled American Dreams.

About
Freelance photographer from Philadelphia, PA.

Krista Svalbonas
In the Presence of Memory 8, 2014
Steel photo-serigraph and mixed media on industrial felt
15 x 9"

Artist Statement
I grew up in an area of Pennsylvania dominated by the steel industry, and have long been interested in industrial architecture as an expression of cultural history. "In the Presence of Memory" explores the architectural vestiges of a far more ancient industry: agriculture. The disappearing vernacular architecture of barns in rural Pennsylvania reveals their varied European lineages: specific structural elements reflect the building traditions of the home countries of the immigrant families who built them. A typology of these barn structures bears witness to centuries of migration. But what once seemed a stable and permanent destination is now in flux, as the family farm gives way to industrial farming, and farmland is converted to residential or commercial developments. For the past year I have been traveling throughout my home state to document these agricultural structures: abandoned, re-purposed, or - occasionally - still in use. These photographic images have become the source material for this body of work. Using industrial felt (manufactured in Pennsylvania) as a substrate, I silk-screen images of architectural details of the barns using industrial pigments such as steel, iron and copper. I paint each piece individually using oil and cold wax, and cut into the felt, echoing the empty and thatched spaces of the often-dilapidated structures I have photographed. I "patch" these cut areas with colored sections of serigraph negatives, mimicking the splashes of incongruous color on the weathered surfaces that have been repaired again and again. The colors, forms and shapes of the felt panels all refer to the original structures; even in their abstraction, these paintings document the vanishing rural industrial landscape.

Artist Bio
Krista Svalbonas holds a BFA in Photography and an MFA in Interdisciplinary studies. Her work has been shown in a number of exhibitions including: the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Spartanburg Art Museum in South Carolina, Howard Yezerski Gallery in Boston, Marshall Gallery in Los Angeles, Klompching Gallery and ISE Cultural Foundation in New York. Her work is part of the permanent collections of the Cesis Art Museum in Latvia, the Gregg Museum of Art and Design in North Carolina, the Woodmere Art Museum and Temple University in Philadelphia. Recent awards include a Center for Photographic Art Artist Grant (2022), Baumanis Creative Projects Grant (2020), Rhonda Wilson Award (2017), Puffin Foundation Grant (2016) and a Bemis Fellowship (2015) among others. In 2022/23 Svalbonas had solo exhibitions of her series Displacement, at the Copenhagen Photography festival in Denmark, the Tallinn city museum in Tallinn, Estonia, Museum of Textile and Industry in Augsburg Germany and the National Museum in Vilnius Lithuania. She is an associate professor of photography at St. Joseph's University. She lives and works in Philadelphia.

Nicolas Tosi
No Name, 2014
Fine art print
18 x 24"
Edition 3/15

Artist Bio
Nicolas Tosi is a French photographer renowned for his work in interior design and travel. Born in Paris, France, he currently resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Throughout his career, he has collaborated with various French magazines, contributing to publications such as Elle Décoration and Marie Claire Maison.

Jack Ramsdale
"621", 2010
Printed photograph
18 x 21"
Edition 1 of 5

Artist Statement

This image evokes a quiet psychological tension between intimacy and exposure. The small turquoise house feels personal and vulnerable-its bright trim and compact form suggesting individuality and care-yet it stands beneath a towering transmission mast and a web of power lines that seem to press in from above. The vertical steel structure introduces a sense of surveillance, reach, and unseen presence, as if invisible currents move through the air while the street remains still.

​The scene feels contemplative and slightly isolating. The parked car, empty windows, and muted sky contribute to a subdued atmosphere, where time appears slowed. The contrast between warm autumn foliage and cold industrial metal suggests the coexistence of human warmth and mechanical indifference.

​The image speaks to modern life-how private domestic spaces exist within vast networks of communication and infrastructure. It reflects the paradox of being both grounded and connected, sheltered yet exposed, solitary yet constantly transmitting and receiving signals beyond view.

Artist Bio
John (Jack) Ramsdale has been exhibiting his work since the late 1970s. He received his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1981. His multidisciplinary practice spans photography, multimedia installation, sculpture, video, and performance.

While living in Ontario, Ramsdale was awarded a solo exhibition at the Canadian Centre of International Photography in Toronto and received multiple grants from the Ontario Arts Council.

More recently, his work was included in The Pennsylvania Landscape in Impressionism and Contemporary Art, curated by Brian Peterson at the Woodmere Museum of Art in Philadelphia. His photographs were also featured in JUST IN, an exhibition highlighting recent acquisitions to Woodmere's permanent collection.

Ramsdale currently lives and works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Amanda Stevenson Photography
Bartrams-Sarracenia-Pitcher, 2024
Archival photograph printed on metal
24" x 24"
Edition 1 of 10

Artist Statement
Isolating the historic Batrams gardens flowers in the studio to capture their beauty and the intricate details of nature.

About
Amanda Stevenson is a native of Philadelphia and a graduate of Community College of Philadelphia, Rochester Institute of Technology and Pennsylvania Academy Of The Fine Arts. Amanda has logged over 35 years of professional photographic experience throughout the US and across the globe. She uses light effectively to enhance her clients' goals, be they portraits, stuffed animals for children's catalogues or models holding cans of beer for highway billboards. Despite her professional proficiency, she was unsatisfied with a career that began as a twelve year old with an Instamatic camera and by fifteen was rising in the dark to capture the dawn light on the Schuylkill River. Throughout her work as a photographer she seemed to be trying to paint with a camera, using increasing complex arrangements of different colored lights to add depth and character to static forms. While her skills were sufficient for a professional career, she came to find the limitations of the photographic medium confining as a means of personal expression and has been exploring with the digital medium and software to enhance her whimsical imagery.

Joel Katz
Untitled (horses), 1963
Photograph
Paper: 16 x 20"

Artist Bio

Joel Katz is a designer, photographer, and educator known for his work in information design, graphic design, and wayfinding. A recipient of the Rome Prize in 2002, he spent a year at the American Academy in Rome, marking his transition from film to digital photography.

His book And I Said No Lord, documenting Mississippi in 1964, was published by the University of Alabama Press in 2014. Katz studied at Yale University with Walker Evans. His design work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum.

Katz has lectured internationally and taught design at the University of the Arts.