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ann kogen street photo

 

STREET

October 2 - December 3, 2025


Opening Reception: October 2, 2025
6:00 - 8:00pm
Dittmar Gallery

Featuring the works of photographer Ann Kogen, STREET shows a series of street photographs images made in the early 1980s using a Nikon FM camera using black and white TRI-X film.  People on the street, chance encounters, reflections from store windows, signs, walls all document the world in striking black and white.   The STREET show photographs were taken in locations such as Chicago, Champaign, New Orleans, Europe, Turkey and Egypt.  Capturing candid moments of people and places is a kind of documentary photography that reflects different aspects of the society and humanity of the time.  There is a timeless quality to the photographs, a sense of common humanity that is easily relatable, mostly because humans share similar universal qualities regardless of their many differences.   Street photography captures the beauty, chaos and nuances of everyday life in public spaces.  These engaging images tell stories about the world around us.

Image: courtesy of the artist

我要吃瓜 the Artist

Ann Kogen, a native of Evanston, has been a lifelong photographer.  In the early 1980’s she was influenced by photographers of the time such as Gary Winogrand, Elliot Erwitt and Mary Ellen Mark, and the WPA photographers who documented the vivid realities of life. With her Nikon in hand, she photographed the world around her documenting places and people on the street in various locations where she traveled, shooting 35 mm black and white film, then processing the film and making darkroom prints.  Fascinated with the range of options photography offered, she spent many years shooting black and white film, doing hand coloring on black and white photos, shooting color film, and experimenting with different kinds of film and cameras. She prefers to work in series, following an idea or subject to guide her image making. Her body of photographic work includes a variety of approaches including documentary, portrait, abstract and collage.  For her, photography allows one to capture the moment, defying the passage of time, to hold a moment long after it has passed.  Photography is a kind of magic that helps us to enter the past.  

 

 

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