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Chaffey College | Fine Art Photography
curated by Brice Bischoff
Where the Earth Breaths brings together emerging photographers from Chaffey College whose work explores the quiet exchanges between land, memory, and lived experience. Through diverse visual approaches—from documentary to experimental—the exhibition reflects on how place shapes identity and how the natural world holds traces of human presence.
The photographs gathered here reveal landscapes not as passive backdrops but as active participants in our lives. Desert light, urban edges, agricultural fields, and intimate domestic spaces all become sites of attention and inquiry. Some images document what's disappearing, others discover what persists. Together, they ask: What does it mean to look closely at where we are?
Each photographer brings a distinct sensibility to the question of place. Some work with the precision of documentation, others with the freedom of abstraction. What unites them is a quality of attention—a willingness to slow down, to notice, to let a location reveal itself over time rather than forcing meaning upon it.
The show highlights the sensitivity, curiosity, and vision of a new generation of image-makers as they consider what it means to witness, inhabit, and care for the spaces we move through. Their work suggests that photography, at its most honest, is an act of relationship.
Ale Acuna, Clarisa Cachu, Elijah Carraby, Elijah Diaz, Verron Duhon, Joseph Gallardo, Azaria Hammond, Ben Karna, Ronaldo Sagastume, Giovany Rodriguez, Tony Montesinos, Christopher Nolasco, Maria Ortiz, Marvin Phillips, Enrique Tapia, Fnu Udham, Alyssa Valle, Genesis Zamora Campillos |
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