Personal Projects: 4 Stories
March 26 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Free – $10.00
Personal Projects with Steve Dunwell, Julianne Snow Gauron, Peter Gumaskas, and Kareem Worrell
Join us for an inspiring evening with four remarkable photographers as they showcase their latest long-term personal projects. Don’t miss this chance to gain insight into their creative journeys and the stories behind their work!
STEVE DUNWELL
With These Hands
Textile industry history has always been a primary interest, starting with an intensive documentary immersion in the world of New England mills, in the 1970s. That work was published as “The Run of the Mill’ in 1978. Since then, Steve has kept up that interest, photographing around and inside various mills in our region. More recently, he has repackaged nine of these images as an archival portfolio – “With These Hands” – and is arranging for conservation in regional museums and libraries. An exhibit of the work will be hung at the Museum of work and Culture, Woonsocket, RI, in August, with an opening event and lecture on Labor Day, 2025.
Bio
STEVE DUNWELL makes photographs of New England – its architecture, landscape, and industry – for publications, for collectors, and for advertising. He has published 17 photo books, and manages Back Bay Press.
JULIANNE SNOW GAURON
In 2023, I traveled to central and western Mongolia to photograph a culturally integrated conservation story.
A livestock guardian dog, called the Mongolian Bankhar dog is believed to long have been key to the nomadic Mongolian way of life, protecting herds and families from predators. But the dogs were almost wiped-out during Communism.
Recently a small local nonprofit, the Mongolian Bankhar Dog Project, is working to bring the dog back to ease the complex pressures on the peoples, the predators, and the landscape.
Bio
Julianne Snow Gauron is a freelance photographer specializing in documentary, editorial and commercial photography. With more than a decade as an industrial designer, she brings unique research, strategy, and storytelling abilities to her photography clients.
Clients include non-profits, publications and purpose driven brands seeking to tell clear and impactful visual narratives.
Her narrative photography and video encompass sustainable agriculture, conservation, humanitarian, and adventure themes, and often sits at the intersection of a few of these topics. Primarily using natural light to capture real moments, Julianne believes visual storytelling is a powerful tool for connecting people and social change.
Julianne’s work has been published in major print media and directed the award-winning documentary short film series, Dear Senator. As a member of the prestigious Explorers Club she’s traveled to nearly 40 countries, each place shaping her understanding of our shared humanity in profound ways.
PETER GUMASKAS
The Whites
A documentation of my journey hiking all 48 of the White mountains in New Hampshire that are 4000 feet and above with my 100 year old 5×7 camera. The 48/4000 is a popular hiking list in the Whites that many have completed. This project is shot with black and white film and glass dry plates.
Bio
There is a beauty in difficulty: in long processes, in craft, in the making of something tangible. This beauty requires patience and concentration. It is slow and deliberate. Representative, perhaps, of a romantic past–a way of interacting with the world that is deeply connected to people, places, and work.
Peter Gumaskas’ work reflects this difficult beauty of the past. Not wistfully, but by bringing that past into the present. Whether he is carrying a 5”x7” camera and glass plates from a century ago to the mountains of the northeastern United States, taking a cross-country road trip inspired by American car culture, or documenting a slowly disappearing truck shop in a small east coast town, he embraces our history and a sense of Americana–and reflects that back to us. His resulting images are not epitaphs for the past, but celebrations of how tangible life can be and how we might bring this into our future, as we celebrate a more interconnected way of life.
KAREEM WORRELL
And the Category Is…: Inside New York’s Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community
In 2019 Kareem worked with author Ricky Tucker to document New York City’s iconic Black and Latinx LGBTQ Ballroom scene . His most recent work explores questions of LGBT+ identity and representation through the use of found slide photographs, repurposed and rephotographed images from gay pornographic visual media.
Bio
Kareem Michael Worrell is a Boston based photographer and zine maker. Worrell began creating haunting Polaroid portraits of his peers in the late 1990s and early 2000s. His practice crystalized on a 2004 cross-country road trip, where he began an ongoing photographic investigation into movement, light, and intimacy on the road. His work has appeared in The Boston Phoenix, SF Weekly, Marble Hill Camera Club and exhibited with CA53776V2.gallery, Main Window Dumbo and Carnation Contemporary.
Thanks to our event sponsor and host Another Age Productions!
