Originating in 1975 as the Paducah Summer Festival Photo Competition, Art Through The Lens has grown from a fledgling contest into an international juried exhibition. Over the past 46 years this exhibition has become one of the Mid-South’s most prestigious annual photographic events.

This year, juror Carolyn Benedict Fraser chose 52 works from 598 submissions and Yeiser Art Center staff juried 40 pieces into the Regional Salon.

Dates

September 24 – November 12, 2022
Closing reception: November 13, 2022, 1-3pm

Sponsors

Juror: Carolyn Benedict Fraser

Carolyn Benedict Fraser is a photographer and educator based in Nashville, Tennessee. Her work utilizes the constraints of the camera, the frame, and vision to address the ways in which we orient ourselves to mental and physical limitations. She studied psychology and photography at Mills College in Oakland, California and received an MFA in Visual Art from Cornell University. She presented her work at the 2017 SPE Northeastern Conference, Is Photography Enough?: Interdisciplinary Approaches Beyond the Still Image. In recent years, her work has been included in exhibitions at Site:Brooklyn in Brooklyn, New York, Washington State University, The Humble Arts Foundation in New York City, and the Millepiani Gallery in Rome, Italy.